


FAILED YOUTH
Video-PAL, 3:33 Minuten, 2006
A gramophone needle descends onto a record and melancholy
trumpet music begins to play. Photos appear. They are family photos of young
people in the
1930s. The giggle of a woman mixes
with the trumpet's song. Then the music stops as the trumpeter begins to laugh.
Together their laughter climbs to the apo-calyptic pitch of those who have
nothing
to lose. The family photos continue and become increasingly strange. They
show the beginnings of the insanity of the Third Reich as it entered into
the private life of a lower middle class family.