Barrage and Bunker

1991 · 52 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 7 VOTES · DIR. Hartmut Bitomsky

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Overview

Barrage and Bunker is an essay film about the (narrative) space imagined by fiction films. Reflections and associations about movement in space are the basis of every kind of story-telling. The film is sometimes referred to as part of Bitomsky's Cinema Trilogy. Sequences from over 20 movies are quoted and commented on by a team of three ""researchers"" (Bitomsky, Petzold, Tanner) in a sort of laboratory. TV-monitors, production stills and screenshots are used as well as quotations from books. A long night's work.

Dialogue Timeline — 581 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:14 Cinema Spaces Bunkers and Locations
00:03:27 But an encounter in this remote area
00:05:23 "And there's some friendly neighbours"
00:06:37 A High Society event
00:08:45 Aloof, playing with a ball
00:11:23 A married couple who's always arguing
00:13:06 They argue
00:15:10 and turn into their opposite
00:17:54 He listens
00:19:57 They find a glorious spot
00:21:23 Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton
00:24:11 In the first part
00:25:29 A panorama
00:26:41 and his own home is not much more than this shabby heap of rubble
00:28:17 And their entry
00:29:37 He catches a flight
00:31:09 Presumably he is his lover
00:33:35 or a little sad
00:34:59 and were happy
00:38:00 Whistling
00:40:28 There's no place that
00:43:34 In the distance
00:45:57 Nonetheless, he runs for his life
00:48:54 He hasn't accomplished anthing, he has lived in vain

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed581
Dialogue density11.2 lines / min
First line00:00:14
Final line00:48:54

Production Record

DirectorHartmut Bitomsky
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes7