How to Live in the German Federal Republic
1990 · 83 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 143 VOTES · DIR. Harun Farocki
Overview
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. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Dialogue Timeline — 911 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:00 HOW TO LIVE IN THE FRG
00:03:55 and turning it here.
00:06:13 And then one of the little girls says, this one.
00:08:54 maybe even a strong pain in your sacrum
00:11:23 Rinse!
00:13:59 I'll throw it on the floor. - No. I've had enough.
00:16:25 Not even the dirt under her fingernails.
00:21:37 Try the other one!
00:24:34 I can assure you, I can also supply you with proof
00:26:52 Perhaps particularly interesting here:
00:30:51 The wall would be here. Over here.
00:35:47 Good morning, my name is Hoffschläger
00:38:19 And then we'll plot the phobia's development over the years.
00:42:27 Or stuffed cabbage... or stuffed paprika.
00:45:46 Parma ham.
00:48:29 Has it been seasoned?
00:51:25 I've told you a hundred times: Look at me! Am I fat?
00:54:29 I'm standing here in my slippers.
00:57:08 and search a bit and then...
00:59:31 Hands off the table!
01:03:22 now the right one too, now the right ones are doing it.
01:07:40 do that, stand straight, let your arms fall
01:11:20 but nothing had bettered.
01:14:36 she threw herself at His feet
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed911
Dialogue density11.0 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line01:14:36
Production Record
DirectorHarun Farocki
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes143