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On a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous), first broadcast on West German TV in 1960, were developed along the lines of American psychiatry. Asked "So how many crazy people watched you?", he responded: "A whole crazy, psychologically disturbed nation". Why were the Germans or to be more precise, the West Germans, a psychologically disturbed nation at that time? This is a film about cheerful and serious games, therapies for re-education and self-imposed re-education, as well as the history of the idea of permanent revolution. Those appearing include directors and producers of gameshows, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and the diversely paranoid.

Date: 04/21/2016
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Lutz Dammbeck, Julischka Eichel, Sebastian Rudolph, Rick Prelinger, Bob Boden, Philip Zimbardo

Lutz Dammbeck as Self in Overgames Lutz Dammbeck

Julischka Eichel as Narrator in Overgames Julischka Eichel

Sebastian Rudolph as Narrator (voice) in Overgames Sebastian Rudolph

Rick Prelinger

Bob Boden

Philip Zimbardo as Self in Overgames Philip Zimbardo