Abendland
2011•1h 30m•4.1•Released
Documentary
Some things can be seen more clearly at night.. . A film poem about a continent at night, a culture on which the sun’s going down, though it’s hyper alert at the same time, an “Abendland” that, often somewhat self-obsessively, sees itself as the crown of human civilization, while its service economy is undergoing rapid growth in a thoroughly pragmatic way. Nikolaus Geyrhalter takes a look at a paradise with a quite diverse understanding of protection. Night work juxtaposed with oblivious evening digression, birth and death, questions that await answers in the semi-darkness, a Babel of languages, the routine of the daily news, and political negotiation: All this has been captured in images with a wealth of details that make us look at things in a new way. The longer you consider a word, the more distant is its return gaze: ABENDLAND.
Director
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Writer
Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Maria Arlamovsky
Languages
German
Studio
Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
Production
Company
Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
Producer
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Producer
Markus Glaser
Producer
Michael Kitzberger
Producer
Wolfgang Widerhofer
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