A staged approach to the perpetrators of domestic violence.
Calle Overweg shows us, under laboratory conditions and employing
genuine violence counsellors and (genuine) actors, men who are in
the throes of an attempt to break free from the spiral of violence.
The case histories portrayed in this film are freely devised as
the result of lengthy research. Specialists in the field of domestic
violence have gone to great lengths to ensure that the men depicted
in every way resemble those in genuine cases. Any similarities to
real persons are intentional.
Surprising about the method of this film is the authenticity, to
which the actors attain via improvisations on this theme. Their own
experience of relationships seems to be enough to allow them to slip
into the part of the wife-basher. Just as in real life, the perpetrator
of domestic violence has more resemblance to the "normal man" than
to our stereotype. He is neither antisocial, nor a lout, and he's
not a tattooed yob. The problem of domestic violence is not a reserve
of a marginal minority.
Award for Best German-Language Documentary (3Sat) 2003
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Direction:
Calle Overweg
Duration:
52 minutes
Genre:
Docu-Drama
Format:
Digi-Beta
Producer:
Ulrike Zimmermann
Cast:
Michael Baral, Hermann Killmeyer, Arnold Dammann,
Frank Meyer-Brockmann, Burkhard Oelemann, Joachim Lempert
