A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
October 5, 1961
Original Title:
Der Mann mit dem Objektiv
Alternate Titles:
Der Mann mit dem GGO
Genres:
Comedy | Science Fiction
Production Companies:
DEFA
Production Countries:
Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 80
A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").
Costume Design:
Marianne Schmidt
Creative Producer:
Willi Brückner
Director:
Frank Vogel
Director of Photography:
Horst Hardt
Editor:
Christa Wernicke
Original Music Composer:
Gerd Natschinski
Screenplay:
Paul Wiens
Set Designer:
Hans Poppe
Still Photographer:
Eberhard Dassdorf
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.