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1974. In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod. Directed by Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz. Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt’s public sphere and urban redevelopment.
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- Kairos-Film
- Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz
In Danger and Deep Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death (German: In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod, a quote from Friedrich von Logau (1605–1655)) is a 1974 drama film directed by Alexander Kluge and Edgar Reitz.
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death is a film directed by Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz with Dagmar Bödderich, Jutta Winkelmann, Alfred Edel, Norbert Kentrup .... Year: 1974. Original title: In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod.
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- Guenter Hoermann; Alfred Hürmer; Edgar Reitz
- 1974: German Film Awards: Best Editing
- Germany-West Germany (FRG)
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In 1975, Mainka-Jellinghaus won the German Gold Film Ribbon for Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and for Kluge’s In Danger and Deep Distress, The Middleway Spells Certain Death. “I mostly look at the raw footage in fast forward, because otherwise it would take too long. What I am particularly interested in, I then watch slowly.
Combining fictional and documentary modes, Kluge's In Danger and Dire Distress... takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the serious formal and political concerns of the film, Kluge's heightened sense of the absurd safeguards a reserve of utopian optimism.
Combining fictional and documentary modes, Kluge's In Danger and Dire Distress... takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment....
