84 minutos
The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.
Hellmuth Costard
The Applicant
Hilka Nordhausen
A gallery owner
Andy Hertel
The painter
Werner Grassmann
A film producer
Herbert Jeschke
The friend
Hark Bohm
First Director
Wolfgang Treu
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Second Director
Michael Ballhaus
Harry Baer
Horst Knechtel
Andréa Ferréol
Gisela Stelly
Petra Nettelbeck
Uwe Nettelbeck
Critic
Dieter Meichsner
Rolf Hädrich
Jean-Luc Godard
The Guest
