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What Would the Drop Know About That? (2008)
Directed by Jan Zabeil
Documentary · 12m
A stylized short documentary about the Reichstag building and its foreign cleaning staff. They mop endless corridors, remove dust from lampshades and clean countless windows. In voice-over, they talk about their work and the significance of the building. For example, one man enthusiastically cleans a text embedded in the floor, explaining that some of the letters are more difficult to clean than others - but without understanding the meaning of the text. Set in the center of German democracy, the film takes a philosophical approach to questions of politics and migration.
Crew
- Director
- Jan Zabeil
- Writer
- Jan Zabeil
- Producer
- Holger Lochau
Details
- Original title
- Was weiß der Tropfen davon
- Release date
- 2008-06-04
- Runtime
- 12m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen 'Konrad Wolf'