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Color Test: The Red Flag
Gerd Conradt films men carrying a red flag in a relay race through Berlin, to hoist it on the balcony of the current Mayor’s seat. A cinematic experiment based on Eadweard Muybridge, Andy Warhol and New American Cinema. A study in men, movements and a symbol. This is the 7th part of this series of film exercises. The other 6 parts were staged by Harun Farocki (Part 1), Carlos Bustamante (Part 2), Helke Sander (Part 3), Holger Meins (Part 4), Wolfgang Petersen (Part 5), Philip Werner Sauber (Part 6).
| Release : | 1968 |
| Rating : | 6.3 |
| Studio : | Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), |
| Crew : | Director, |
| Cast : | Gerd Conradt Holger Meins Hans-Rüdiger Minow |
| Genre : | Documentary |
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I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
