Overgames

2015
2h 44m

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On a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous), first broadcast on West German TV in 1960, were ... Read allOn a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous), first broadcast on West German TV in 1960, were developed along the lines of American psychiatry. Asked "So how many crazy people watched ... Read allOn a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous), first broadcast on West German TV in 1960, were developed along the lines of American psychiatry. Asked "So how many crazy people watched you?", he responded: "A whole crazy, psychologically disturbed nation". Why were the Germa... Read all

Director
- Lutz Dammbeck
Writer
- Lutz Dammbeck

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7.3/10

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Director
- Lutz Dammbeck
Writer
- Lutz Dammbeck

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Too wordy to be enjoyable

The topic of this documentary is quite interesting: were German game shows, and in return American game shows that the former were based on, nothing but a psychological experiment unwittingly played on the general public to gain knowledge on how the nation ticks? Unfortunately, the documentary never really answers that question, and just goes around in circles for what seems like an eternity. Chances to get a clearer idea of the motivation behind those shows by interviewing people involved are wasted, and the constant drone of the narrator eventually makes you switch off. Shame, an interesting subject completely wasted.