The starting point of this essayistic documentary film is the song of the same name, recorded by Oliver Augst in 2004 for Hessischer Rundfunk as part of a larger sound project. The song itself is a text fragment borrowed from Ernst Toller’s work “Tag des Proletariats. Chorwerk zum Andenken Karl Liebknechts” (1920). In his film, Jürgen Heiter explores how and in what forms filmmakers, conceptual artists, musicians, scholars, and writers today articulate or question utopias.

Heiter probes the utopian through a cinematic collage that makes no distinction between documentary and fiction. Among the participants are the Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri, one of the fathers of revolutionary cinema in Latin America; pop singer Marianne Rosenberg, who, in the manner of a female Jean-Luc Godard, interviews an eight-year-old boy; actor Udo Kier, who meets a blind man on the beach in Venice, California; film critic Olaf Möller; and chaos researcher Otto E. Rössler. (Source: 3Sat)

Following the film:
Conversation between journalist Olaf Möller and Jürgen Heiter

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