Overgames

★ 6.9 2016 2h 44m HD

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 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 Germans or to be more precise, the West Germans, a psychologically disturbed nation at that time? This is a film about cheerful and serious games, therapies for re-education and self-imposed re-education, as well as the history of the idea of permanent revolution. Those appearing include directors and producers of gameshows, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and the diversely paranoid.

Watch Overgames free in the app.

Stream it in full at no cost — the whole MovieAro catalog is free.

Watch free — get the app
Genres Documentario
Release 2016-04-21

Cast

More Like This

35 Up poster

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subj…

35 Up

★ 7.6 1991

180° South poster

The film follows adventurer Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Ch…

180° South

★ 7.2 2010

Return poster

RETURN tells the story of a retired Green Beret who embarks on a healing journey from Montana to Vi…

Return

★ 6.8 2023