Art
Short film by Burghard Schlicht with the magnificent Eddie Constantine.
Film director Jeff and his lead actor are taking their time getting to set. In their absence, the crew lack a purposeful way to spend their time waiting, so they drink heavily. However, as booze is downed and frustration sets in, morale hits rock bottom.
Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to lose his bearings, and he wanders aimlessly through the city streets and spends the night with the box-office attendant of a movie theatre.
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.
The story of two small-time crooks in the Frankfurt underworld who would like to make it big, but fail time and again.
Tale about railway station district in Frankfurt with Rio Reiser (Ton Steine Scherbern) in cast, directed and played by actor of Fassbinder ("Pioniere in Ingolstadt", "Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte'), Michael Fengler ("Weg vom Fenster", "Eierdiebe"), Hans Noever and Hark Bohm. Schlicht is also autor of well-known article "Armer Deutscher Film" as Olga GrĂĽber (which is referenced in Thomas Elsaesser's and Mattias Frey's works about New German Cinema) and novel about MĂĽnchner Gruppe "Im Augenblick der Freiheit".
