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.
Dialoguing directly with the trilogy of documentaries “Images of the Unconscious”, made between 1983 and 1986 and based on clinical cases and therapies with a humanist approach and artistic expression, conducted by the pioneering psychiatrist Nise da Silveira (1905-1999) – screenwriter of that film –, here is presented, in two parts, an interview with the doctor, a student of Carl Jung and a pioneer in the application of non-violent treatments for psychiatric patients, given to director Leon Hirszman, in 1986.
Two parts documentary about the brain: "The Magic of the Unconscious" and "The Power of the Unconscious" "Your brain is a state-of-the-art marvel, managing 90% of everything you do without letting you know regardless of whether you're awake or asleep.
An intensive psychological test by Professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971 saw US students volunteer to play prisoners and guards in an bid to examine the nature of good and evil.
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Overgames (2016) Trailer
Infos/Kritik: Monumentaler Dokumentarfilmessay von Lutz Dammbeck erkenntnisreich verschroben und unterhaltsam.
Filmfest München 2015 | Neues Deutsches Kino Overgames
Der Dokumentarfilm "Overgames" von Lutz Dammbeck läuft in der Reihe "Neues Deutsches Kino" auf dem Filmfest München 2015. #ffmuc15.
OVERGAMES / DVD-Trailer
Regie: Lutz Dammbeck »Eine verrückte eine psychisch gestörte Nation!« Joachim Fuchsberger Showmaster und Schauspieler Es beginnt in einem Labor und ...
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