Our 2006 film ‘DER TAG’ will be screened in a special showing on Friday 27 February 2026 as part of the ‘Rediscovered/&The Art of the Documentary’ series at the Zeughaus Cinema (German Historical Museum)
Introduction: Ralph Eue
followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Uli M Schueppel
German premiere: @dokleipzig, international premiere @iffr Rotterdam Film Festival;
“Berlin Film Award” (2009)
Please note: the screening begins at 17:30;
German Historical Museum, Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin
“The Last Room
Death is something humans cannot grasp; yet, unlike almost any other event in life, it is overloaded with images and emotions. It is precisely for this reason that Berlin-based director Uli M. Schueppel focuses on the essentials in “The Day”. (…) The cinematography by Cornelius Plache and the sound design by Einstürzende Neubauten drummer F.M. Einheit open up and expand this entirely unsentimental, coolly poetic space, in which time stands still, and in which, at the end of every life, existences gently dematerialise along with the images.”
(Anke Sterneborg, SZ)
“A film in twelve stanzas, about the dying of others. (…) The camera, operated by Cornelius Plache, scans deserted locations—presumably charged with memories—in long takes: rooms, forest paths, stretches of motorway, hospital rooms or balconies. The film’s aim: to bring to mind. What is brought to mind, however, is not the past lives of the deceased or the future of those left behind, but this one day in between. Committed to the special presence of this day: the empathetically associated soundscapes by FM Einheit.”
(Raph Eue, International Documentary Film Festival, Leipzig)
