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Die vereinigten Staaten von Erinnerung (1985)
Short | 31 min | Short

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Die vereinigten Staaten von Erinnerung (1985)

Short | 31 min | Short

In Helmut Weiss' "black-and-white" film there are the motifs, substitutes and set pieces from which the myth of America can be spelled out, but as film images they pass by like shadows: Indian singing before a moonlit night, sometimes ...See moreIn Helmut Weiss' "black-and-white" film there are the motifs, substitutes and set pieces from which the myth of America can be spelled out, but as film images they pass by like shadows: Indian singing before a moonlit night, sometimes Indians with feather headdresses, a music box from the Far East and little wooden dolls form the minimalist scenario from Chinatown to Vietnam. The sound and image montages in the film are only clear in a few places, but mostly a melancholy ambivalence prevails. Acoustic refraction results in a fanning out of a minimalist visual aesthetic into mini-stories: the visual enlargement of a pictorial motif such as a few fig trees becomes a jungle, the sound montage becomes a slowed-down South State recitative, or Curtiz's Casablanca final dialogue an ironic break with the romantic associated with the men's association. An insect in a water glass, an ant circling nervously on its rim, flies on a tabletop, a hand that suddenly falls over it: in close-ups like this, the film tells what is in the subordinate clauses of detective novels. In close-up, an insect performs a surrealistic dance to the beat of the music, like the overture or epilogue to a killer showdown. The minimalist technique of enlargement thus evokes memory rather than citing what common sense holds for America. A bizarre, "black" film that lies almost vegetatively on the surface of things. Written by Gertrud Koch (1985) See less

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Guy Austruy Self Self See fewer	Die vereinigten Staaten von Erinnerung (1985)
Lucien Austruy Self Self See fewer	Étude de pluie (1983)
Odile Austruy Self Self See fewer	Étude de pluie (1983)
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Leyla Linda Barretto Self Self See fewer	Die vereinigten Staaten von Erinnerung (1985)
Rocky Barretto Self Self See fewer	Die vereinigten Staaten von Erinnerung (1985)
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Bob Booker Actor (archive footage) Actor (archive footage) See fewer	Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders (1984)
James Dean Actor (archive footage) Actor (archive footage) See fewer	East of Eden (1955)
Earle Doud Actor (archive footage) Actor (archive footage) See fewer	Far Out Space Nuts (1975)
Beate Honsell-Weiss Self Self See fewer	La Traction Avant, une histoire d'amour (1997)
John F. Kennedy Actor (archive footage) Actor (archive footage) See fewer	Profiles in Courage (1964)
Raymond Massey Actor (archive footage) Actor (archive footage) See fewer	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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Claude Rains Actor (archive footage) Actor (archive footage) See fewer	Casablanca (1942)
Ronald Reagan Actor (archive footage) Actor (archive footage) See fewer	Kings Row (1942)
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Bayram Vural Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	Die vereinigten Staaten von Erinnerung (1985)
Leyla Vural Self Self See fewer	Die vereinigten Staaten von Erinnerung (1985)
Helmut-Ulrich Weiss Self Self See fewer	La Traction Avant, une histoire d'amour (1997)
Melanie Weiss Actress (voice) Actress (voice) See fewer	Die vereinigten Staaten von Erinnerung (1985)