The Leading Role
1994, English. Directed by Harun Farocki.
1989, the fall of the Berlin wall. Television crews trying, for days on end, to get an emblematic image which would crystallise the event: to no avail. Five years later, Farocki delivers a montage film of this footage, trying to define this ‚absent image'. "Today, 5 years later, this material shows the extent to which the collective conscience was affected by the event, as well as all the efforts made to repress the trauma" declares the filmmaker.
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- 4 December 1994
- Original title
- Die führende Rolle
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The Leading Role (1994) was directed by Harun Farocki.