The short film "FIASCO" is a cinematic and poetic essay which uses the metaphor of a crack in order to examine the social and human crisis in Germany today (where the poverty has never been so strong since the reunion in 1990), and in a larger scale, in Europe. The film shows a pensioner in Berlin, who, for making a living with his insufficient pension, must collect empty bottles in parcs. Starting with the industrial production of bottles, than showing the life of Günther, the German pensioner, and ending on some impressions of Berlin, the film explores the consequences of a social fiasco that leads a society towards a catastrophe.
Direction : Emmanuelle Bayart and Timo Kirez
With Günther Kroworsch
French voice over : Carlo Brandt
Text : Timo Kirez
French translation : Maurice Taszman
English translation : Lucinda Rennison
Image : Emmanuelle Bayart
Sound : Adrien Kessler
French voice over recording : Thierry Simonot
Editing : Emmanuelle Bayart and Timo Kirez
Grading : Lucien Keller - COBALT Films, Bruxelles
Music : "Ein Loch ist im Eimer", Schlagerjuwelen: Medium Terzett - Ihre großen Erfolge
With the support of City of Geneva
