In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death

1974 · 86 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 237 VOTES · DIR. Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz

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Overview

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the serious formal and political concerns of the film, Kluge's heightened sense of the absurd safeguards a reserve of utopian optimism.

Dialogue Timeline — 582 lines

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00:00:02 A film by Alexander Kluge
00:06:39 Oh, in China? As I happened to be there
00:08:27 Thank you.
00:15:13 Nice.
00:19:54 You'll get your first mission today.
00:21:50 It can only be the basis of workers and peasants.
00:25:21 we ensure that they can get in and see the performance.
00:29:43 But, my dear colleague, that's very interesting!
00:33:18 It will be a terrible mess.
00:36:07 at a poetry reading, but not here.
00:37:31 I don't ask that much.
00:40:05 Listen to the choir
00:44:01 We have to go a long way back into history
00:45:53 Lorentz force, that is q over c times v cross b.
00:48:03 Can a young person today still become an entrepreneur?
00:59:53 I don't even know whether to encode it or not.
01:01:40 A socialist people's republic
01:03:21 the tram will run again on Bockenheimer Landstrasse.
01:04:49 don't interest anybody at all. Who wants to read them?
01:08:38 Common people are told to work for the state for free.
01:12:59 Here lived, are living and will live
01:19:11 Later on, US Supreme Commander General Mark Clark said:
01:21:36 In the car they found
30:00:00 to deal with today.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed582
Dialogue density6.8 lines / min
First line00:00:02
Final line30:00:00

Production Record

DirectorAlexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes237