Second Life of Friedrich Wilhlem Georg Platow, The (Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow)
Streaming video - 2016
Refusing to accept that he has become redundant when his job is automated, Platow, a 57-year-old railway crossing guard, embarks on a new life rebelling against the path laid out by society. Pretending to be his son, he enrolls in a training course and starts to live a second youth. Director Siegfried Kuhn was influenced by his mentor, the renowned Russian film director Sergei Gerasimov. Here he experiments with color, separating day-to-day dreariness in bandw, from scenes in color conveying an optimistic, imaginative vitality. Officials criticized this satirical comedy, with music by the East German rock band The Puhdys, for showing a distorted image of the working class. Despite its very limited release, it quickly became an insiders'...; tip.
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Kanopy Streaming
2016.
- Language
- English
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- Corporate Author
- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
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- In Process Record.
Title from title frames. - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 87 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
- Playing Time
- Pl:ay:in
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).