Overgames

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Lutz Dammbeck

Self

Age : 75 | Popularity : 7%

Julischka Eichel

Narrator

Age : 43 | Popularity : 3%

Sebastian Rudolph

Narrator (voice)

Age : 56 | Popularity : 6%

Rick Prelinger

Self

Age : 71 | Popularity : 3%

Bob Boden

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Philip Zimbardo

Self

Age : 91 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Editing	Editor	Margot Neubert-Maric
Sound	Music	J.U. Lensing
Camera	Director of Photography	Volker Tittel Börres Weiffenbach Eberhard Geick István Imreh
Directing	Director	Lutz Dammbeck
Production	Producer	Lutz Dammbeck
Writing	Writer	Lutz Dammbeck
Department	Role	Name

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