Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2005 / Weltverbesserungsmassnahmen / Germany 2005
Wacky mockumentary, in Christopher Guest style, satirising European bureaucracy and Germans’ penchant for precision.
A deadpan exploration of utopian ideals, universal in their myopic sincerity yet rendered positively surreal when filtered through the German penchant for precision, Measures to Better the World is a sporadically hilarious, no-budget mockumentary in the Christopher Guest mold that suggests panacea for these troubled times. Pic is the brainchild of arts students Jorn Hintzer and Jakob Huefner, whose motto in the film’s presskit is: “We need more maniacs who have the courage to follow an idea, even if it seems totally senseless.” Thesping is cannily awkward and thus completely realistic, putting one in mind of nothing so much as the most recent generation of those whacked-out Stateside car insurance TV ads with the talking lizard.
Eddie Cockrell
90 min / Color, 35 mm
International premiere
Director Jörn Hintzer, Jakob Hüfner
/ Screenplay Jörn Hintzer, Jakob Hüfner
/ Dir. of Photography Volker Mai, Jörg Pfeiffer, Daniela Knapp, Aleksandra Kerkovic, Volker Gerling, Matthias Schellenberg
/ Music Tonbüro Eike Hosenfeld, Moritz Denis
/ Editor Dan Loghin, Carolin Ernstling, Andrea Hübers, Philip Schäfer, Jessica Ehlebracht
/ Producer Jörn Hintzer, Jakob Hüfner
/ Production Datenstrudel
/ Cast Andreas Nickl, Peter Berning, Christoph Bach, Cornelius Schwalm, Jan Schütte, Torsten Schlosser, Thomas Schmieder, Harald Schrott, Claudia Geisler, Peer Martiny, Patrick Güldenberg, Katja Rosin, Christoph Jungmann, Samuel Finzi, Gianni Meurer, Jakob Hüfne
/ Contact Datenstrudel
www: www.weltverbesserungsmassnahmen.de
Datenstrudel
Borsigstr.33, 101 15, Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 30 280 457 83
Fax: +49 30 280 458 60
E-mail: [email protected]
Jörn Hintzer
Film Director
Jakob Hüfner
Film Director
Mirko Lempert
Film Crew
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