Polizeibericht Überfall (1929)


May
23
2012

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  • Host Department: Germanic Languages and Literatures
  • Date: 05/23/2012
  • Time: 2:00PM - 2:30PM

  • Location: Angell Auditorium A

  • Description: Directed by Ernö Metzner. Written by Grace Chiang and Ernö Metzner. With Liane Kleine and Max Bandelow.

    A short film by Ernö Metzner, Polizeibericht Überfall details the life of a man over the course of a single day. His life gets out of control after he finds a coin on the street. When he tries to buy something with it, it isn’t accepted because it is suspected to be counterfeit. Later he uses it to bet in a dice game, and it seems to bring him lots of luck — so much so that it attracts the attention of two criminals who make plans to rob him. Running away from the men, he takes refuge in a prostitute’s apartment. A charming film that tries to capture the mood of desperation in depression era Germany.
    [Source: archive.org]
    DVD w/English Subtitles, 21 min.
    German Film Institute pages