Plots(1)
Over sixty years after the end of the Second World War, forty years after the student revolts of 1968, thirty years after the 'German Autumn' of 1977, twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and, in the midst of the social upheaval caused by the reforms of 'Agenda 2010' as the country moves into the globalised world of the 21st century, a group of German film directors have come together to create a panoramic impression – each from their own individual point of view – of the social and political climate in today's Federal Republic. Each of the directors involved in this episodic film has created their personal cinematic take on present-day Germany: whether abstract or specific, each auteur was given free rein to choose the form and content of their work. Each individual contribution could be a short drama, a documentary, an essayistic or an experimental piece. As one of the project's directors and co-initiators Tom Tykwer describes it: "The film DEUTSCHLAND '09 brings together at least a dozen different cinematic interpretations of our native land – these pieces describe the ways in which we position, lose and ensnarl ourselves in this country." (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Claudia Geisler-Bading
East Germany
Best movies:
No Place to Go (2000)
Cracks in the Shell (2011)
Barbara (2012)
Hildegard Schroedter
West Germany
Best movies:
Generation War (2013) (series)
The Lives of Others (2006)
The Reader (2008)
Peter Jordan
West Germany
Best movies:
Solino (2002)
The Conference (2022)
Soul Kitchen (2009)
Frank Voß
Best movies:
Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga (2013) (series)
Side Effects (2007) (TV movie)
Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (2009)
Christoph Jacobi
West Germany
Best movies:
Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013)
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush (2022)
Andreja Schneider
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Life Is All You Get (1997)
The Most Beautiful Day (2016)
Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (2009)
Bernhard Baron Boneberg
Germany
Best movies:
Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (2009)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Alexander Hörbe
Germany
Best movies:
The Captain (2017)
Nachtgestalten (1999)
Three (2010)
Bernd Birkhahn
Germany
Best movies:
Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (2009)
Der Zürich-Krimi (2016) (series)
The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019)
Helene Grass
West Germany
Best movies:
A Good Boy (2008) (TV movie)
Wolves of Berlin (2009) (series)
Cocoon (2020)
Andreas Hofer
West Germany
Best movies:
Persian Lessons (2020)
Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (2009)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Edeltraud Schubert
Best movies:
Bandits (1997)
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996)
Grave Decisions (2006)
Torsten Michaelis
East Germany
Best movies:
The Reader (2008)
The Same Sky (2017) (series)
Frantz (2016)
Anne Werner
West Germany
Best movies:
Ku'damm 56 (2016) (series)
Dark Woods (2020) (series)
Praxis mit Meerblick (2017) (series)
Christoph Glaubacker
West Germany
Best movies:
The Tunnel (2001)
I'm Your Man (2021)
Pope Joan (2009)
Justus Carrière
East Germany
Best movies:
Race (2016)
Forwards Ever! (2017)
If Not Us, Who? (2011)
Helene Hegemann
Germany
Best movies:
Till Butterbach
West Germany
Best movies:
System Crasher (2019)
Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (2009)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Katharina Blaschke
Best movies:
A Woman in Berlin (2008)
Gripsholm (2000)
Alone in Berlin (2016)