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SummaryPrelude by accordion player. Welcome by Georgia Tornow, introduction of the guests. Question: Do German directors only want to be entertaining? Peter Timm refers to sophisticated cinema, for example C. Link "Beyond Silence". Timm himself doesn't want to be instructive-analytical, don't want to do academic cinema. Andreas Dresen thinks that cinema should be a pleasurable process, but not a mental diarrhoea. He is in favour of politicising the contents and a stronger reference to reality. Tornow asks if the "anti-fun guerrillas" around people like Kluge, Schlöndorff, Schamoni etc. have scared the audience away. Brückner believes that the audience has been overtaxed more by formal aesthetics than by content. Timm admits that if more sophisticated films were to be made, there would also have to be rentals for such films.
