Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)

Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract ... See full summary »

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Stars:

Eddie Constantine, Hanns Zischler, Claudia Michelsen

2 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Eddie Constantine	...	Lemmy Caution
Hanns Zischler	...	Count Zelten (as Hans Zischler)
Claudia Michelsen	...	Charlotte Kestner / Dora
Nathalie Kadem	...	Delphine de Stael
André S. Labarthe	...	Récitant (as André Labarthe)
Robert Wittmers	...	Don Quichotte
Kim Kashkashian	...	Musician
Anton Mossine	...	Dimitri
Heinz Przbylski
Kerstin Boos
H.J. Jurgen
Uwe Grzechowski	...	(as Uwe Orzechowsici)
Jochen Gliscinsky	...	(as Jochen Glischinski)
Iva Svarcová
Elfi Gäbel	...	(as Elfi Gabel)

Storyline

Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract need for guidance of Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Plot Keywords:

lemmy caution | year 1990 | deutsche mark | west germany | territory name in title | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French German

Release Date:

20 January 1995 (USA)

Also Known As:

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

Company Credits

Production Co:

France 2 (FR2), Production Brainstorm, Gaumont

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

[first lines]
Lemmy Caution: Can we tell the story of time? Time itself, in its own essence? No, we can't. It would be useless. A story with the words: "And then time has passed and then followed its own course" and so and so. No one in their perfect mind would write such narrative. It would be like trying to hold a single note or just one accord for a whole hour and call it music.

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Connections

Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une vague nouvelle (1999)

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Soundtracks

Symphony No.7 in A major op.92 - II, Allegretto
Written by Ludwig van Beethoven

User Reviews

A waste of time and money

Alright, I was never a big fan of Jean-Luc Godard and never liked his overestimated and highly over-hyped reputation by left-winged film critics, although I quite liked some his old works like "Weekend", "Alphaville", "Pierrot Le Fou" and especially his debut "A bout de souffle" from the fifties and sixties. During the last few decades he directed a lot of low budget nonsense movies for stones film students, but nothing you can really enjoy.

"Deutschland neun null" (Germany nine zero) from 1991 is his film about the German union in late 1990 and the fall of the communist East German government. The only entertaining thing about this movie is that Godard chose Eddie Constantine in his old role as Lemmy Caution, a successful hardboiled detective that he used to play in some European b-movie productions in the sixties. Godard already used his role for his strange science fiction "Alphaville" from 1965.

But in this movie Lemmy Caution is just stupidly walking around and facing senseless situations, supported by weird collages, renditions of poems and other nonsense. There is no plot here, and Godard never really seemed to have liked scripts at all. This production might enlighten some depressed left-winged intellectuals, but no normal thinking human can enjoy this waste of time and money.

The worst thing are the cliches that Godard is using, and adding boring discussions about German philosophers to footage material of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, the Berlin ruins after WWII, Mozart and Beethoven tunes and cold war situations is everything that mindless people might associate with Germany... only the Bavarian leather trousers, skinheads, Kraftwerk or Rammstein songs, soccer stars and some German beer and sauerkraut are missing! There could have been made much better movies about a historical event like the German union like this nonsense!! Leave it, you won't regret it!!