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Once again, Odenbach plunges into his own past, which is also that of Germany. He exhibits the German cultural heritage in a way that sows seeds of doubt about the moral quality of many of its typical expressions. The tape begins with shots of a Schumann concert, with close-ups on three vertical planes, a reference to the piece's original presentation on three monitors. He then uses a basic close-up of the piano keyboard and infiltrates clips of Bavarian folklore; baroque palaces; extracts trom the Ring der Nibelungen; a public appearance by the Führer; the Nurenberg trials; the post-war reconstruction; and a gang of sailors toiling at the hawsers. The last images blend into a portrait gallery of good-looking men, flowing in turn into a precious shot of a menswear shop. He leaves it to the viewer to make explicit links between these disconnected pieces of information.
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Rob Perrée
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Camera: James Griebsch, Rick Tiedemann, John Goodman, Editing: Marcel Odenbach , Sound: Sam Negri, Music: Robert Schumann: Manfred, F. Marschall en U. Timmermann: Chaoten entfuhrten Afrika - Drum and gong songs, Production: Goethe Institute Boston, Contemporary Art Television Fund, With: New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra conducted by Piero Bellugi, Andrew Newberg
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