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Feature-documentary "pointing up a thousand facets of this world and probing to determine what may lie beneath the surface".AKA The Parallel Street English s...
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The Parallel Street: Directed by Ferdinand Khittl. With Friedrich Joloff, Ernst Marbeck, Wilfried Schröpfer, Herbert Tiede. Feature-documentary "pointing up a thousand facets of this world and probing to determine what may lie beneath the surface".
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- Drama
- Ferdinand Khittl
- 1962-06
In Ferdinand Khittl’s remarkable experiment The Parallel Street, viewers are thrust into a peculiar, Kafkaesque predicament. It opens with a black-and-white, bird’s-eye view of a group of five nameless individuals huddled together on a table inside a darken room as we all look down at them like scientists observing mice.
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- Gesellschaft Für Bildende Filme
- Ferdinand Khittl
Apr 20, 2021 · Die Parallelstraße is one of the most mysterious pioneer films of the New German Cinema. It was produced by GBF, a production company for innovative industrial and promotional films and received awards in inter national film festivals.
A thoughtful and only occasionally winking meta-comment on metaphysics and documentary objectivity in film.
Nov 16, 2016 · No digression or over-indulgence, The Parallel Street goes the route of experimental and flashy, but also quick and to-the-point. An urgency to each discussion, with the color scenes being the relaxed but important point-of-focus for the men in those black & white scenes.
Die Parallelstraße (The Parallel Street, Ferdinand Khittl, 1962) is an understudied docufiction from an early moment in the Young German Cinema. It hybridizes industrial film techniques, cross-sectional montage in particular, with experimental prose poetry to achieve an ecological mode of storytelling.
