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Overgames

6.9 164 mins Documentary   2016
Lutz Dammbeck Filmproduktion   ARTE   RBB   WDR  
Director(s): Lutz Dammbeck

On a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous), first broadcast on West German TV in 1960, were developed along the lines of American psychiatry. Asked "So how many crazy people watched you?", he responded: "A whole crazy, psychologically disturbed nation". Why were the Germans or to be more precise, the West Germans, a psychologically disturbed nation at that time? This is a film about cheerful and serious games, therapies for re-education and self-imposed re-education, as well as the history of the idea of permanent revolution. Those appearing include directors and producers of gameshows, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and the diversely paranoid.

Casts of Overgames

Lutz Dammbeck

as Self

Julischka Eichel

as Narrator

Sebastian Rudolph

as Narrator (voice)

Rick Prelinger

as Self

Bob Boden

as Self

Philip Zimbardo

as Self

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