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A color film about California and an attempt to redefine the genre of "reportage." With an amusing and ironic commentary, Hans Domnick describes the American way of life in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Francisco. But he is less interested in the people than in their lifestyle, which is dominated by the automobile. Appalled, one reviewer writes of a "filmed nightmare" and shivers: "A horrible thought having to live in such a world, to be lashed through one's days by the haste of life, by the breakneck speed of all activities." Therefore, the film about "this totally uncomplicated country" (Domnick) also reflects the West German image of America eight years after the end of the war. (Jeanpaul Goergen).
An event of CineGraph Babelsberg in cooperation with the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv and the Deutsche Kinemathek. Einführung: Jeanpaul Goergen (June 14)
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