Preservation Conversation: Ain’t Nothing Without You (Nicht nichts ohne Dich) and Saving German Independents
Preservation Conversation: Ain’t Nothing Without You (Nicht nichts ohne Dich) and Saving German Independents
West Coast Restoration Premiere.
In person: Pia Frankenberg and Annika Haupts, program coordinator, Deutsche Kinemathek
West Coast Restoration Premiere
In person: Pia Frankenberg and Annika Haupts, program coordinator, Deutsche Kinemathek
Martha (played by writer-director Pia Frankenberg) is a filmmaker. Alfred (Klaus Bueb) has been studying architecture forever. When they stumble across each other on the frozen Alster lake in the middle of Hamburg, it is evidence of the compelling force of opposites attracting. “The most important thing in my films is the atmosphere, and capturing the atmosphere is the most difficult,” Martha tells an interviewer. Frankenberg achieves this astoundingly well in her screwball comedy that uses subtle irony to expose the emotional and ideological ensnarements of big-city yuppies in topical debates about sisterhood, integration, and commercial television.
Adapted from a note by Deutsche Kinemathek.
A post-screening conversation between filmmaker Pia Frankenberg and Deutsche Kinemathek program coordinator Annika Haupts will discuss the importance of preserving German independent cinema, the focus of the Berlinale’s 2024 retrospective.
DIRECTED BY: Pia Frankenberg. WRITTEN BY: Pia Frankenberg, Klaus Bueb. WITH: Klaus Bueb, Pia Frankenberg, Adeline Almeida-Sedas, Thomas Struck. 1985. 91 min. Federal Republic of Germany. B&W. German. Not rated. DCP.
Support provided in part by the Deutsche Kinemathek and the German Film Office.
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