Tucker(red.) - The Marx -Engels

Tucker(red.) - The Marx -Engels -

Now playing in New York at Film Forum, Karl Marx City, Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s follow-up to 2013’s The Flag. An entirely different meditation on national identity, in Karl Marx City Epperlein — who emigrated to the States following the collapse of the Berlin Wall — travels back to her East German homeland, and the film follows her as she attempts to discover the reason for her father’s suicide in 1999. Evidence that he may have been a Stasi informant deepens the urgency of her journey, with a visit to the Stasi archives revealing thousands of hours of footage, somewhere in which may be the clue to her father’s mysterious motivations. Seen on screen, Epperlein is leather-clad, with close-cropped blonde hair, wearing giant earphones, and clasping an over-sized boom mic, and the filmmakers cast her as their own cinematic heroine, one whose dogged research generates both suspense and, even, a kind of Tati-like comedy. With third-person narration, a film-noir score and sound design that inserts actual ambiences and effects surreptitiously recorded decades ago by the Stasi into present-day scenes, Karl Marx City is a stunner — an impressively inventive take on the personal doc that, with the sinister banality of its archival footage, expands from the personal to the political before concluding with a breathtakingly perfect ending. ! Uwagi: Oprawa delikatnie podniszczona, pozaginana, brzegi stron pożółkłe, zakurzone. Książka popisana ołówkiem, strony pozaginane.