Based on a story by Oskar Maria Graf about rebellious farmers in the Thirty Years' War, the film asks about adaptation and resistance here and now. A newborn baby risks a look back into the Thirty Years' War and ages into the future as it narrates. Thus a confrontation with the world before the next war and the Neanderthal man develops in all of us.
The film jumps between pictures from Bavaria in 1633, current carnival processions, threatening speeches by intellectuals and clergy until a nuclear bomb explodes and catapults mankind back to the beginnings of all life.
Film talk with Dr. Ulrich Dittmann and Dr. Thomas Kraft on the occasion of the 120th birthday of Oskar Maria Graf.
Section FSFF 2014: 7 Rooms 7 Arts
