Your parents' revolution was cringe. This kid knew it.
The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a provocative reckoning with the ideological upbringing that seemed so progressive and yet was suffocated by the children's desire to finally grow up. With an ironic eye and a feuilletonistic style, author Richard David Precht and Cologne documentary film director André Schäfer trace a childhood in the West German provinces - and place the major events of those years in completely different, smaller and very private contexts.
Direction
Schäfer's playful archival juxtapositions with Precht's narration
Writing
Precht's feuilletonistic wit slicing through sacred 68er myths
Editing
Home movies vs. news footage creates delicious cognitive dissonance
Director
André Schäfer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2008, the film deliberately punctured 40th anniversary nostalgia for '68—Germany's most mythologized political moment.
Precht later became a pop-philosopher superstar; this film reveals the autobiographical roots of his skepticism toward all ideological certainties.
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