The Visitor (1991)

Movie
Original title	The visitor
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1991
length	84 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Dror Zahavi
script	André Hennicke based on an idea by Dror Zahavi
production	Dror Zahavi
music	Klaus Martin Kopitz , Peter Hiller (Songs)
camera	Matthias Tschiedel
cut	Christine Schöne
occupation
André Hennicke : Leon Silke Matthias : Almuth Hans-Uwe Bauer : violin player Anne Moll : Mother Hartmut Puls : chess player Peter Hiller : singer Werner Dissel : Blind man Axel Wandtke : photographer Volker Ranisch : Head of the Black Uniforms

The visitor is a movie by the Israeli director Dror Zahavi , who uses surrealism to take a critical look at German reunification. The metaphorical portrayal of a country that has lost its balance is the last DEFA film .

action

The young Israeli Leon travels to Germany shortly after reunification. For no apparent reason, the train stops in an underground station. The travelers have to get off and find themselves in a kind of mini-society that is dominated by boredom and fear. The prisoners passively endure all harassment by the police and pass the time with absurd activities. Leon wanders helplessly through this scene until he walks away through a - completely unguarded - exit.

background

The film was produced by Dror Zahavi Filmproduktion (Berlin) and the German TV broadcaster and premiered on December 18, 1991 in the Berlin cinema "Odyssee" in the Zeiss Planetarium ; on December 22, 1991 it ran for the first time on German television, the broadcasting of which was stopped at the end of the year.

Web links

• The visitor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The visitor at filmportal.de
• The visitor in the lexicon of international film