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The process of coming to terms with the Nazi past in Germany is progressing slowly.
This film is dedicated to Herbert Achternbusch. Sladkowski, an unemployed engineer, goes out into the street every Sunday morning and shouts, “Get up!” The neighbors are annoyed and threaten to call the police. After that, Herbert—that’s his name—listens to his wife, Maria, and takes a job, but soon quits. He’s depressed and only wants peace and quiet. Maria now pins all her hopes on a clinic which might offer a cure for her husband.
The film will be shown in the analog version (16 mm).
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After the film: Film talk with Behrang Samsami and Narges Kalhor
Filmmuseum
Meet the director
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Screenwriter and filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-1998) is considered one of the driving forces behind the “New Iranian Wave”. He left Iran in 1974 after two award-winning feature films and continued his work in exile in Germany. Here he made 13 feature and documentary films in which he addressed the repressed confrontation with the Nazi era, anti-Semitism and racism.