Abendland

Synopsis

Some things can be seen more clearly at night.. . A film poem about a continent at night, a culture on which the sun’s going down, though it’s hyper alert at the same time, an “Abendland” that, often somewhat self-obsessively, sees itself as the crown of human civilization, while its service economy is undergoing rapid growth in a thoroughly pragmatic way. Nikolaus Geyrhalter takes a look at a paradise with a quite diverse understanding of protection. Night work juxtaposed with oblivious evening digression, birth and death, questions that await answers in the semi-darkness, a Babel of languages, the routine of the daily news, and political negotiation: All this has been captured in images with a wealth of details that make us look at things in a new way. The longer you consider a word, the more distant is its return gaze: ABENDLAND.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Camera	Director of Photography	Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Production	Producer	Nikolaus Geyrhalter Markus Glaser Michael Kitzberger Wolfgang Widerhofer
Writing	Writer	Nikolaus Geyrhalter Wolfgang Widerhofer Maria Arlamovsky
Editing	Editor	Wolfgang Widerhofer
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