King Kongs Faust

Overview

Berlin Film Fest 1984. The best place for every cinema fan. Everyone wants to be in on the festival, but that may be really difficult, if one has no accreditation. Also Journalist Matthies gets to know the rules of being in or out when he wants to see a screening and is not welcome. Thus he watches an old German silent flick which he is barely interested in. The next day the newspapers are full of reports about a newly discovered German masterpiece from the silent era. It seems that Matthies had luck. He just saw *the* film everybody is talking about now. Also everybody is speculating about its director, who remains unknown. When Matthies talks to Ackrewa, an old befriended projectionist, about the film, the latter seems to recall the name of the director. Matthies decides to research the case. An odyssey into film-history begins and if it is successful Matthies will come up with a top story.

Cast

Leonard Lansink

Klaus-Uwe Matthies

Werner Grassmann

Fritz Ackrewa

H

Heinz Van Nouhuys

Chefredakteur

W

Wolfgang Längsfeld

Kollege

G

Gisela Weilemann

Frau in der Bar

G

Gad Klein

Kritiker

V

Volker Stollberg

Kritiker

Doris Dörrie

Kritikerin

P

Philip Behrens

Kritiker

M

Michael Stejskal

Kritiker

Ponkie

Kritikerin

Peggy Parnass

Kritikerin

Wim Wenders

Regisseur

P

Peter Przygodda

Cutter

H

Helmut Färber

Filmhistoriker

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