CinemaOSMovie · 2003 · 1h 21m

Thank God I’m in the Film Business!

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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)

Directed byLothar Lambert

Status: Released
Runtime: 1h 21m
Language: DE
Released: February 8, 2003

Studios

3sat

ZDF

Lothar Lambert Filmproduktion

Featuring

Cast & crew

6 credited

Starring

Eva Ebner

Eva Ebner

Herself

Michael Sittner

Himself

Nilgün Taifun

Herself

Erika Rabau

Herself

Heiko Behrens

Ralf Grawe

Creative team

Directed by: Lothar Lambert
Written by: Lothar Lambert

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