Sinopsis(1)
During the 20th Century, dozens of amateur filmmakers have filmed their lives in Europe. Their own and the life of people around them, the time in which they lived. Between 1900 and 1980, private film archives have developed in almost every household with an own cine camera. Archives that show moments of spontaneity, uncontrolled gestures and impromptu events. If access was gained to these film
collections, then life can be observed as it was lived, straightforward and face to face: The everyday life of the Twenties, weekend trips and outings of the Thirties, the ordinary war of the Fourties and the celebrations of the post war years. We see private films of Marie Curie in Paris and of Sigmund Freud in Vienna, films of the concentration camp’s baker in Dachau and of soldiers fighting at the frontlines. In the Sixties an amateur filmmaker watches the Beatles shooting Help on location in England, while in Paris Maurice LeMaitre filmed the uprising youth in May 1968. But not only men had cameras. In the Seventies lady amateur filmmaker Maomi Neven DuMont continuously shot on Super-8 her Hippie life.
(DOK.fest München)