Synopsis
Gideon Bachmann instructs Marie Falke with the inventory of his belongings. An accumulation of dozens of boxes, well-filled with his articles, photographies, love letters and film reels. An enormous conglomeration of stories of a man who can be characterised as a witness of the 20th century.
Trial and Error recounts the encounter between the aging cosmopolitan who struggles with death and a young film student who's seeking stories. In this manner the documentary establishes a discourse about life and death and comments on the ambivalent relationship between director and protagonist.
