Wim Wenders: The Skladanowsky Brothers / Chambre 666 ( Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky )

Wim Wenders: The Skladanowsky Brothers / Chambre 666 (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1982-1995 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Wim Wenders

Written By:
Sebastian Andrae
Henrick Heckmann
Veit Helmer
German Kral
Barbara Rohm
Alina Teodorescu
Wim Wenders

Actors:
Stefan Barber ..... Ringkampf boxer
Wiebke Bayer ..... Italienischer Bauerntanz dancer
Nadine Büttner ..... Gertrud Skladanowsky (as Nadine Buettner)
Mehmet Ali Ceyhanli ..... Ringkampf boxer
Daniele Drobny ..... Acrobat
Florian Gallenberger ..... Self
Larissa H. Gomez ..... Italienischer Bauerntanz dancer
Lucie Hürtgen-Skladanowsky ..... Self
George Inci ..... Russian dancer / Ringkampf boxer
Jürgen Jürges ..... Self
Leon Jürges ..... Acrobat
Marianna Kawka ..... Josephine Skladanowky
Udo Kier ..... Max Skladanowsky
Lali Kovacz ..... Acrobat / Ringkampf boxer
Wim Wenders ..... Self
Michelangelo Antonioni ..... Self
Maroun Bagdadi ..... Self
Ana Carolina ..... Self
Mike De Leon ..... Self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder ..... Self
Jean-Luc Godard ..... Self
Romain Goupil ..... Self
Yilmaz Güney ..... Self
Monte Hellman ..... Self
Werner Herzog ..... Self
Robert Kramer ..... Self
Paul Morrissey ..... Self
Susan Seidelman ..... Self
Noël Simsolo ..... Self
Steven Spielberg ..... Self

Synopsis:

The Skladanowsky Brothers: In a mixture of documentary and fiction, Wenders, together with students from the Munich HFF, lovingly tells anecdotes about the "Skladanowsky brothers" from the beginning of cinema history. On November 1, 1885, even before the Lumière brothers, they had presented moving images on their "Bioskop" in the Berlin Winter Garden. Chambre 666: During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, into the same hotel room to answer in solitude the same question about the future of cinema, while they were filmed with a 16mm camera and recorded with a Nagra sound recorder. In social sciences the goal of standardization is that each person is exposed to the same question experience, and that the recording setting of answers is the same, too, so that any differences in the answers can be correctly interpreted as reflecting differences between persons rather than differences in the process that produced the answer. The wide sampling frame in 'Room 666' included European 'auteurs' and Hollywood directors, narrative and experimental filmmakers, male and female professional film directors that presented their films or were simply present at the 35th Cannes Festival in May 1982. The directors came from France, Italy, Brazil, Lebanon, Germany, Turkey, the Philippines and the USA. This unique documentary shows the complete footage (or selected parts) of the 15 answers that resulted from this 'standardized survey interviews'. The historical value of 'Room 666' has increased over time: The 5 directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Yilmaz Güney, Maroun Bagdadi, Robert Kramer and Michelangelo Antonioni have died since then in this order. Fassbinder died only a few weeks later on June 10th 1982 and gave his last 'interview' in 'Room 666'.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 17 April, 2022.