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JOSCHKA AND SIR FISCHER
by Pepe Danquart
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He was a student activist, an urban guerrilla, a taxi driver; Joseph Joschka Fischer emerged from the Extra-parliamentary Opposition (APO) to become Hessens trainer-clad environment minister and Germanys suited and booted foreign minister. Director Pepe Danquart follows Joschkas colourful life through six decades of postwar Germany from the phoney fifties, to the wild APO days, through the leaden times of RAF-terror and on to the advent of the anti-nuclear movement and the birth of the Green Party, then all the way up to fall of the Berlin Wall and Germanys first red-green coalition. Danquarts film is a time machine hurtling through the decades with Joschka at the helm gazing out - often in astonishment - at the epochs that shaped him, as he did them.
JOSCHKA AND SIR FISCHER reaches far beyond biographic narrative. Oscar-winning director Pepe Danquart («Black Rider», «Hell on Wheels», «To the Limit») presents an entertaining and insightful exploration of postwar Germany including previously unseen footage. He depicts the countrys long search for democracy and its struggle to shake off the horrors of the past. Joschka Fischers thoughtful and often self-depreciating responses when confronted with provocative scenes from Germanys history as well as his own, invites us to see him in a new light. Joschka made history theres no doubt about it. But it was Germanys own unique history, which paved the way for a career such as his. By inviting Joschkas contemporaries in front of the camera - e.g. actress Katharina Thalbach, European MP Daniel Cohn-Bendit, as well as Fehlfarben band members Danquart rounds off his documentary with a controversial and entertaining kaleidoscopic retrospective of those breathless days gone by
Credits
Year: 2011
Country: D, CH
Running Time: 140 Min.
Director: Pepe Danquart
Author: Pepe Danquart, Werner Schweizer
Producer: Mirjam Quinte, Quinte Film, Werner Schweizer
Camera: Christopher Häring, Kolja Brandt
Editor: Toni Froschhammer
Sound: Jacob Ilnger
Music: Thom Hanreich, Sebastian Padotzke
Production Manager: Sereina Gabathuler
Production Assistant: Franziska Sonder
Festivals International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, IDFA, 2011
DOX International Documentary Festival Copenhagen, 2011
Film Festival Beirut, 2011
16th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival San Francisco, 2011
Berlinale German Cinema, 2012
47. Solothurner Filmtage, 2012