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Thank God I’m in the Film Business!
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Thank God I’m in the Film Business!

Feb 8, 2003
1h 21m
★ 9.0

Overview

Eva Ebner is a Berliner who gives the appearance of being rather eccentric. She knows the film business inside out – regardless of whether she’s work- ing behind the camera as an assistant director or in front of it as an actor. Her name is closely associated with a series of now-legendary adaptations of Edgar Wallace’s crime novels which were made in Germany during the 1960s. Upcoming young directors from local film schools have also profited from Ms. Ebner’s unbroken enthusiasm and passion for film. However, this eighty-year-old has a more than broken relationship to the events of her childhood and youth in Gdansk – a time when her life was characterised by an anti-Semitic step-mother and the dangers posed by the Nazi regime. This film portrait does not eschew any of the long dark shadows of that era, nor does it sidestep any friction between portrayer and his subject. (Lothar Lambert)

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Lothar Lambert Filmproduktion
3sat
ZDF

Cast

Eva Ebner

Herself

Eva Ebner

Michael Sittner

Himself

Michael Sittner

Nilgün Taifun

Herself

Nilgün Taifun

Erika Rabau

Herself

Erika Rabau

Heiko Behrens

Heiko Behrens

Ralf Grawe

Ralf Grawe

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