Die Bewerbung (1997)
The Interview
Harun Farocki
Subtitles: English hardsub

“In the summer of 1996, we filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for a job. School drop-outs, university graduates, people who have been retained, the long-term unemployed, recovered drug addicts, and mid-level managers – all of them are supposed to learn how to market and sell themselves, a skill to which the term ’self management’ is applied. The self is perhaps nothing more than a metaphysical hook from which to hand a social identity. It was Kafka who likened being accepted to a job to entering the Kingdom of Heaven; the paths leading to both are completely uncertain. Today one speaks of getting a job with the greatest obsequiousness, but without any grand expectations.” Harun Farocki
director, scriptwriter: Harun
Farocki cinematographer: Ingo
Kratisch second cinematographer
Bernd Löhr editor: Max Reimann
sound: Ludger Blanke music: Neil
Young researcher: Ludger Blanke
production: Harun Farocki Film-
produktion, Berlin, for den Sⁿd-
deutschen Rundfunk, Stuttgart
producer: Harun Farocki
TV-producer: Juliane Endres
length: 58 min. format: video -
BetaSp, col., 1:1,37 first
broadcast: 18.02.1997, arte
commissioned for the TV series
La vie en face / Welt im Blick
Web-site: http://www.farocki-film.de/
Imdb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176538/
TPB : http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4319679/The_Interview_(1997)_-_Harun_Farocki

