Abendland
2011 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 238 VOTES · DIR. Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Overview
Some things can be seen more clearly at night.. . A film poem about a continent at night, a culture on which the sun’s going down, though it’s hyper alert at the same time, an “Abendland” that, often somewhat self-obsessively, sees itself as the crown of human civilization, while its service economy is undergoing rapid growth in a thoroughly pragmatic way. Nikolaus Geyrhalter takes a look at a paradise with a quite diverse understanding of protection. Night work juxtaposed with oblivious evening digression, birth and death, questions that await answers in the semi-darkness, a Babel of languages, the routine of the daily news, and political negotiation: All this has been captured in images with a wealth of details that make us look at things in a new way. The longer you consider a word, the more distant is its return gaze: ABENDLAND.
Dialogue Timeline — 222 lines
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00:01:07 The view is good today. But there is no one there.
00:05:31 Yeah, I'm making the list for Saturday now.
00:06:05 But my family doesn't go until Monday.
00:06:52 You can destroy your things or leave them here.
00:12:56 But I refuse to participate here, if my language isn't going to be translated.
00:13:59 Europe invests significant sums...
00:14:52 It is evidence of an increased militarization
00:15:50 Iraq! Are you satisfied with the situation in Iraq!
00:30:21 We're doing our best
00:31:24 Therefore we are not able to fulfill all that we as priests would hope to.
00:32:13 He lives for Jesus Christ, and is filled with the fire of his love.
00:33:09 hallowed be thy name
00:40:30 Yeah, I think about it a lot, what you said.
00:42:49 Can you tell me something about it?
00:44:48 Are you busy? - Yes, very.
00:46:30 to go to a gas station, that you will need guns
00:47:22 Come over here and let me see your ID.
00:47:59 I'll show you what you've got coming!
00:51:51 Get out of here.
00:56:18 Of course!
01:00:50 OK, we going to dance. We've got to make this a disco.
01:08:50 you end up, you know, in a war situation.
01:20:36 We've found no one.