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1978 Documentary 1h 24m

Little Godard

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology, and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.

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Principal Cast

Hellmuth Costard

Applicant

Hilka Nordhausen

Gallery owner

Andy Hertel

Painter

Werner Grassmann

Film producer

Herbert Jeschke

Friend

Hark Bohm

First Director

Wolfgang Treu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Second Director

Michael Ballhaus

Harry Baer

Horst Knechtel

Andréa Ferréol

Gisela Stelly

Petra Nettelbeck

Uwe Nettelbeck

Critic