Miracles of Reality

by Thomas Frickel
  • HE-Film Thomas Frickel
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    Synopsis

    Miracles of Reality is an encounter with the versatile German performance artist and filmmaker Martin Kirchberger, who mixed up the narrow-minded atmosphere of his German home-town in the eighties. At the same time the film tells the story of the worst accident in the history of film production: 28 people died when a plane crashed during the shooting of a short ‘mockumentary’ about ‘security’.
    After 25 years, Thomas Frickel draws a very personal portrait of his friend and colleague Martin – as a document of upheaval and awakening – and as a transgression along the fine line between fiction and reality.

    Festivals

    festivals: DOK Leipzig, Kasseler Filmtage, IFFMH Mannheim-Heidelberg
    awards: Hessian Film Award 2017, Seal of Approval ‘highly recommended’