Roland Klick’s first feature film is a critique of bourgeois postwar German society, offering a subtle approach to political criticism through feelings and emotions. It is free of the influences of the moderate or radical left that shaped the work of other young German filmmakers of the time, who approached political critique in the form of message-driven films or explicitly subversive and radical works. An essential film in articulating another idea of political critique in cinema.

Restored version (DCP).

Roland Klick, FRG 1968, Alexander Kekulé, Sieghardt Rupp, Edith Volkmann ⁄ color ⁄ 86′ ⁄ subtitles: English