How to Live in the German Federal Republic

The read

It runs a compact 1h 23m.

Synopsis

A series of 32 short scenes, uniformly set in West German instructional and training classes, that show various tasks among the citizenry being done solely as the result of exhaustive preparation - everything from women preparing to give birth, to strippers stripping, to policemen making arrests. Farocki uses the material to savagely dissect the West German mode of life.

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Key crew

• Harun FarockiDirector

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