Documentary film by Erwin Michelberger and Oleg Tcherny – Germany 2005, BETA, color and b/w, 82 min. – A Michelberger Film Production with collaboration from the Film Studio Düsseldorf, in coproduction with RBB/ARTE, subsidized by the Film Foundation NW
N like Nobody
When you don't know how to go on, you open the chest. Adam has a bequest in the chest – which belongs to someone who has disappeared. He is said to have been quiet and slender.
N like Neanderthal
Fragments fall into your hands. It would be ridiculous if they didn't somehow fit. There are tales about P., executed by Franco in Barcelona in 1976. S. appears; she was on the right side and thinks she's sweet. Most often, E. shows up. After all, she was the one who stormed City Hall.
N like Near
Hopes shared with old-time friends appear, thoughts of the one who broke away from us. Common ideas. Shared goals. You sense how foreign they were to him. There is the story about A., who made a copy of the Spanish electric chair while at the Academy of Arts. But M. makes his teeth wise. Waiting like pick-up-sticks for what will happen: Thoughts that tug on the reins of compromises. Accompanied by tumbling laughter and vibrant calm.
N like Nothing
“The last dance we are dancing alone”, says A.D.C. And the casual singsong of the steadfast relieves us from anxiety. What has Adam to do with F. who plays with human beings, while only the mirror awaits you and some dust out of the chest? Nothing belongs to you. Least of all dreams. Adam does not look back.
