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GESCHLOSSENE GESELLSCHAFT

CLOSED SOCIETY

By Hans VON BROCKHAUSEN, Maximilian WEISHAUPT

WHAT THE FILM GMBH - as PROD / FIN

Documentary - Completed 2022

As a cinematic document of time, the documentary captures the transformation of
the nightlife up to the ecstatic resurrection of a cross-generational place of
longing - authentic, surprising and visually not seldom surreal.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 86 mn
- Director(s)
- Hans VON BROCKHAUSEN, Maximilian WEISHAUPT
- Cast
- Sebastian GOLLER, Peter FLEMING, Hans Georg STOCKER, Peter SÜß, Phillip ENGELHARDT, Angelica SCHWARZKOPF, Tino HEIDRICH
- Producer(s)
- Hans VON BROCKHAUSEN (What The Film GmbH), Maximilian WEISHAUPT (What The Film GmbH), Matthias KUHN (What The Film GmbH), Abraham YOUSAF
- Synopsis
- For a moment, time stands still on the dancefloor. A disconnected sphere of
  individual happiness, the warm embrace of a collective state of intoxication - with
  the outbreak of Corona suddenly a threat, out of nowhere.
  "Geschlossene Gesellschaft" is a film about the Munich clubs P1, Harry Klein,
  Backstage and Milla in the pandemic. It is about the industry that was the first to
  close and the last to reopen. Yet it also illuminates the fates of the people who try
  to feed their families and find their social and cultural identification in an
  entertainment world that is often reduced to intoxication.
  The documentary starts one year after the shutdown. The nights have become silent
  and empty. Behind the club doors, however, life is bustling. Walls are being knocked
  down, television studios are being built, applications for funding are being
  submitted and flowers are being planted. The creative rebellion of an industry
  against financial and mental insolvency is the film-driving question. A subculture
  reinvents itself, also in order not to be forgotten. Above it all is the question of what
  the new "normal" will look like in the midst of uncertainty.
  As a cinematic document of time, the documentary captures the transformation of
  the nightlife up to the ecstatic resurrection of a cross-generational place of
  longing - authentic, surprising and visually not seldom surreal.
  "Geschlossene Gesellschaft" is the inspiring struggle for survival of a way of life
  that is incompatible with social distancing, contact restrictions and curfews.