Thank God I’m in the Film Business!
2003•1h 21m•9.0•Released
Documentary
Eva Ebner is a Berliner who gives the appearance of being rather eccentric. She knows the film business inside out – regardless of whether she’s work- ing behind the camera as an assistant director or in front of it as an actor. Her name is closely associated with a series of now-legendary adaptations of Edgar Wallace’s crime novels which were made in Germany during the 1960s. Upcoming young directors from local film schools have also profited from Ms. Ebner’s unbroken enthusiasm and passion for film. However, this eighty-year-old has a more than broken relationship to the events of her childhood and youth in Gdansk – a time when her life was characterised by an anti-Semitic step-mother and the dangers posed by the Nazi regime. This film portrait does not eschew any of the long dark shadows of that era, nor does it sidestep any friction between portrayer and his subject. (Lothar Lambert)
Director
Lothar Lambert
Writer
Lothar Lambert
Languages
German
Studio
Lothar Lambert Filmproduktion
Cast
Eva Ebner
Herself
Michael Sittner
Himself
Nilgün Taifun
Herself
Erika Rabau
Herself
Heiko Behrens
Ralf Grawe
Production
Company
Lothar Lambert Filmproduktion
Company
3sat
Company
ZDF
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