Documentary

How to Live in the German Federal Republic (1990)

Leben – BRD

A series of 32 short scenes, uniformly set in West German instructional and training classes, that show various tasks among the citizenry being done solely as the result of exhaustive preparation - everything from women preparing to give birth, to strippers stripping, to policemen making arrests. Farocki uses the material to savagely dissect the West German mode of life.

Production

Harun Farocki Filmproduktion