Germany 09: 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation

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Germany 09: 13 Short Films About The State Of The Nation
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Directed by	Fatih Akin, Wolfgang Becker, Sylke Enders, Dominik Graf, Martin Gressmann, Christoph Hochhäusler, Romuald Karmakar, Nicolette Krebitz, Dani Levy, Angela Schanelec, Hans Steinbichler, Isabelle Stever, Tom Tykwer, Hans Weingartner
Produced by	Dirk Wilutzky
Production companies	Herbstfilm Produktion GmbH, NDR – Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Distributed by	Piffl Medien Filmverleih
Release date	March 26, 2009 (2009-03-26)
Running time	140 min
Country	Germany

Germany 09 (German: Deutschland 09 – 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation) is a German anthology film composed of 13 short films that contemplated the state of Germany at the time.^[1] It was conceived as a rejoinder to the 1977 anthology film Germany in Autumn (composed of shorts directed by 11 different filmmakers, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Edgar Reitz and Volker Schlöndorff) after 30 years of German history have passed.^[2]

According to the film's official website, "Each of the participating directors interprets his personal perception and his own cinematic view of contemporary Germany, abstractly or concretely, freely in the choice of format and content. The individual contributions could be short feature films, documentary films, essayistic or experimental."^[3]