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GERMANIA

By Lion BISCHOF

MINDJAZZ PICTURES - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, GERMANY, GAS

Art - Culture - Completed 2018

Intimate and rare documentary insight into the world of the traditional student fraternity, „corps Germania“.

Festivals
& Awards

Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival 2018

Winner "Best Film Music in a Documentary"

crossing europe 2018

EDOC Encuentros del Otro Cine 2018

Sehsüchte 2018

DOK.fest Munich 2018

Innsbruck 2018

Flahertiana 2018

Kitzbühel 2018

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Art - Culture, Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 78 mn
- Director(s)
- Lion BISCHOF
- Writer(s)
- Lion BISCHOF
- Cast
- Corps GERMANIA
- Producer(s)
- Lion BISCHOF ( Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München), Johannes SCHUBERT (Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München)
- Synopsis
- GERMANIA explores young men on their search for identity in a time of impermanence and constant change. Amidst current populist upheaval, “traditional values“ resurface while a surge of participation in fraternities becomes fashionable again. Today there are more than 1,600 student associations internationally with over 190,000 members of German-speaking origin.
  
  In observing scenes, the film approaches the members of Corps Germania. For the members of the conservative fraternity, it is lived democracy and a school for life. For outsiders, it is a claustrophobic cosmos with strict rules, rigid hierarchy and strange rituals. But what does it mean to be a man, what are they searching for in the digital age, where does a political attitude come from? The filmmakers take a look behind the usual lines of argumentation and find out how the young men find their bearings in the tension between tradition and modernity.