Poster for the movie Overgames

Overgames

2016 • 164 minutes
Documentary

On a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous), first broadcast on West German TV in 1960, were developed along the lines of American psychiatry. Asked "So how many crazy people watched you?", he responded: "A whole crazy, psychologically disturbed nation". Why were the Germans or to be more precise, the West Germans, a psychologically disturbed nation at that time? This is a film about cheerful and serious games, therapies for re-education and self-imposed re-education, as well as the history of the idea of permanent revolution. Those appearing include directors and producers of gameshows, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and the diversely paranoid.

Picture of Lutz Dammbeck

Lutz Dammbeck

Self

Picture of Julischka Eichel

Julischka Eichel

Narrator

Picture of Sebastian Rudolph

Sebastian Rudolph

Narrator (voice)

Picture of Rick Prelinger

Rick Prelinger

Self

Picture of Bob Boden

Bob Boden

Self

Picture of Philip Zimbardo

Philip Zimbardo

Self