Virtual Film Series
BALAGAN

Kino x 3: Veiel Films

Mon, 08/08/2022 -
Fri, 08/12/2022

Online

Online: Goethe on Demand

Director: Andres Veiel, 1992/1993, Germany, Color, 96 min., with English subtitles

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BALAGAN is a story of hope: an Orthodox Jewish actress, the daughter of a concentration camp survivor and a Palestinian join forces to develop a play exploring modern-day perceptions of the Holocaust in Israel. The project pushes all three actors to their physical and psychological limits. The film recounts this difficult trial and portrays the painful contradictions of Israeli society.

Andres Veiel is considered one of the most distinguished representatives of politically engaged art in Germany. One of his distinctive characteristics is the intense, in some cases multiannual research for his projects.
From 1985 until 1989 he studied psychology at FU Berlin and at the same time received a training in film dramaturgy and directing by the Polish director Krzystof Kieslowski at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
In addition to his film works Andres Veiel writes and directs stage plays , i.a. at  Theater Basel, Schauspiel Stuttgart, Gorki-Theater and Deutschen Theater (Berlin).