The Leading Role

The Leading Role (1994)

Die führende Rolle

1989, the fall of the Berlin wall. Television crews trying, for days on end, to get an emblematic image which would crystallise the event: to no avail. Five years later, Farocki delivers a montage film of this footage, trying to define this ‚absent image'. "Today, 5 years later, this material shows the extent to which the collective conscience was affected by the event, as well as all the efforts made to repress the trauma" declares the filmmaker.

Date of release
1994-12-04
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
35m
Director
Harun Farocki

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