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Racing (S)

5.2

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Original title

Rennen

Year

1961

Running time

9 min.

Country

Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Director

Alexander Kluge, Paul Kruntorad

Screenwriter

Paul Kruntorad, Hans Neuffer

Cast

Mario Adorf

Producer

Alexander Kluge, Rolf A. Klug Filmproduktion

Genre

Documentary | Short Film. Car Movies. Sport Documentaries

Synopsis

On its surface, it's just a document of a race: cars circling around the track, spectators cheering, lap after lap of the same images repeated. The narration toys with ideas like the interaction between human reflexes and intelligence and the increasingly complicated machines we operate. More subversively, Kluge probes the pacifying effect of populist entertainment, which provides a harmless distraction from politics and more important social issues, and he wonders aloud why this kind of entertainment so often flirts with death and violence.

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Racing (S)

1961

Alexander Kluge, Paul Kruntorad

5.2

(29)