Overgames (2016)
2h 44m
Running Time
April 21, 2016Release Date
Overgames (2016)
2h 44m
Running Time
April 21, 2016Release Date
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Plot.
On a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous), first broadcast on West German TV in 1960, were developed along the lines of American psychiatry. Asked "So how many crazy people watched you?", he responded: "A whole crazy, psychologically disturbed nation". Why were the Germans or to be more precise, the West Germans, a psychologically disturbed nation at that time? This is a film about cheerful and serious games, therapies for re-education and self-imposed re-education, as well as the history of the idea of permanent revolution. Those appearing include directors and producers of gameshows, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and the diversely paranoid.
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FreeCurrently Overgames is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: GuideDoc, Kanopy
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
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The film was made in 2015. The director is looking for traces of the creation of the TV game shows and their connection with the US concept of re education measures in West Germany. He wanted to explore the connections between science, media, power, war and game. The viewer is taken to the most diverse places, people and the theses of his research work over two and a half hours. Directors and curators of American gamehows, psychiatrists, anthropologists and paranoids all speak. The film was shown in Germany in April and March of last year.