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A man in financial debt is asked by his little son if the photographer of the famous picture which shows the Hindenburg zeppelin going up in flames early this century has become rich by that. The father quickly concludes that he only has to take the right picture in order to be able to pay his debts. After contacting a underground explosives engineer he takes off to the Munich Olympic Tower with his camera...
ZONE is a melodrama about a girl with paranormal abilities who fights against a system that tries to calculate and completely record people in a hermetically sealed area. In a time torn from chronology the rebel sets off with a bundle of hope in search of counterspaces and a life that feels like her own. Time and space collapse into each other. A country can be experienced through the pain, sadness and desire of its inhabitants.
With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operations and asks why its other secrets are yet to be revealed.
Oleg, a young Russian-German, seeks the ultimate thrill, playing with his own life. Somewhere west of Volgograd, in an abandoned barracks, a few men meet to shoot at each other with live ammunition, as if in a war situation. The film crew accompanies the boy to the players' camp. A commentary summarizes the events, which are interspersed with statements from the "players." What the viewer does not suspect at first: the documentary turns out to be fake, with which filmmaker Felix Müller wants to make it clear that images do not necessarily reflect reality. The second part, "Spiel mit dem Zuschauer" (Playing with the Viewer), reports very concretely and vividly on this and how easy it is to manipulate images.
