The Great Depression

Konstantin Faigle

year of production

2005

synopsis

What’s wrong with us Germans? Are we depressed sissies? Or are we just plain mad? Haunted by these questions, filmmaker Konstantin Faigle took a highly personal journey through his home country. He searched for the German soul, it’s origins and a way to elevate it to the sky again. As a man, expecting his first child Faigle refuses to bring up his child in a collectively depressed nation.

production

unafilm / Titus Kreyenberg

in co-production with

ZDF/Das Kleine Fernsehspiel

cast

financiers

Film and Medienstiftung NRW

sales

german distribution

world premiere

IDFA - competition

festivals and awards

Bieberach, Kassel, Kiev, Rhodos

nominated for the Grimme Award 2007

category

feature documentary