Underground Berlin: “Super hot in places”: Lothar Lambert is back

Germany’s last cooper, the Berlin underground director Lothar Lambert, is back. With his 41st film, which premieres this afternoon in the Bundesplatz cinema in Berlin: “Super sharp in places”. It’s about a failed film within a film: everything real, everything improvised, everything deeply felt by the best amateur actors in the city, guided, inspired and filmed by the now 79-year-old Lambert, in the exciting Twilight Zone between documentary and feature film.

The cinema museum operator Frank “Schoppi” Schoppmeier tells how he wanted to film an old script by Lambert (“Flapper Feeling – Spoiled, How Berlin Created It”) with his cell phone camera. But the images were “super sharp in places,” and most of the time they were “totally cropped” or there was a grease spot on the lens. “I feel like I’m driven by my own project,” reports Schoppi, and also that he suffers from a “testosterone allergy.”

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His film was supposed to be about sex, love and adventure around a Kreuzberg “flap”, one of the last public urinals from the Empire. Because the script was by Lambert, he also wanted to use the actors from his films: Ulrike S., Evelyn Sommerhoff, Nilgün Taifun and Arnfried Binhold. They can be seen here in new scenes, but also in old ones, dancing and dancing or chatting about Lambert, who once again portrays and ironizes himself through the eyes of his actors. And once again, old film material has been re-managed in an exemplary, ecological way. Nothing is thrown away, but material is kept or made suitable for the present.

How do you tell new stories? Betty Lerche says to Schoppi: »When you walk around the tree, you always see something new. Only when you have walked around the tree can you form a concept of ‘tree’.” Because then you can see “super sharply in places.” And at the end Schoppi hits himself on the butt.

“Super sharp in places or the strange twist of Mr. Schoppi”, Germany 2023, directed by Lothar Lambert, 77 min., premiere on Saturday, December 9th. at 3:30 p.m. in the Bundesplatz Kino, Bundesplatz 14, Berlin

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