Film Dialogs: REQUIEM

This marks the start of the series "Film Dialogs", which on a two-monthly basis invites filmmakers to talk about one of the films presented in the exhibition spaces of the Museum für Film und Fernsehen, followed by a screening. Director Hans-Christian Schmid and set designer Christian M. Goldbeck will talk about their work on REQUIEM (D 2006, June 18). Based on a real case that was put on record in a small Franconian town in 1970, the film deals with Christian fundamentalism and bigotry. While studying, a young woman from a strict Catholic family gets into an identity crisis that turns into religious delusion. With this award-winning film, Schmid succeeded, in aesthetic terms as well, in reconstructing the West German provincial climate of the 1970s. (Anke Hahn)