1968 - The Global Revolt - beetz brothers film production

1968 – The Global Revolt

A spectacular journey through the years of protest and uprisings that shook the world, disrupted society, and ushered in globalization

Year

2018

Length

2x100 min

Director

Don Kent

For the first time we will take a close look at the global shock wave, caused by the US entry into the war, from a variety of national perspectives – leading to an overall picture of the 68-movement: From the US to Vietnam, from Japan to Germany, Brazil, France, Mexico, China and the Congo. Despite national differences the movements were united in a common protest culture that touched upon all life areas: flower power, music and drugs were part of the protest as well as peaceful demonstrations, brutal violence and counter violence.

The series examines this era of protest from the perspective of three generations – for instance contemporary witnesses such as Dilma Roussef (former president of Brazil and underground fighter against the military regime in the 1960s), Antonio Negri (one of the most important theorists of the radical left) or Greil Marcus (an US journalist who reflects the protests from a pop-cultural perspective). The children of 68-activists too get a chance to speak: for instance the German philosopher Richard David Precht or the US feminist and philosopher Judith Butler, who was born in 1956.

The grandchildren of the 68-activists have found their own forms of protest and rate the achievements of the 68-movement in a non-nostalgic way: Susanne Neubronner, Greenpeace speaker Germany, Janaya Khan, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement in Canada and Aki Okuda, who leads a new generation of protesting youngsters in Japan. All of them tell the story of 1968 from their own local and national perspectives and thereby draw a detailed picture of a global protest spirit that spread all over the world – also thanks to television as the new means of mass communication.

Credits

Directed by
Don Kent

Written by
Don Kent
François-Xavier Destors

Cinematography
Christophe Neuville
Laurent Fénart
Olivier Raffet

Sound Recordist
Antoine Rodet
Sylvain Lambinet

Editing
Toby Trotter
Claire Vandewalle

Music
Bruno Coulais

Production Management
Cécile Croizat
Sandrine Magloire-Szlasa (USA)

Produced by
Olivier Mille
Christian Beetz

Producer
Victoire Buff

Co-Producer
Fernando Dias
Mauricio Dias

Line Producer
Anne Coulais
Kathrin Isberner

Sales & distribution

Trailer

„Just in diesem Moment überraschen uns die aus dem Theaterbereich stammenden jungen Regisseure Hans Block und Moritz Riesewieck mit einem erstaunlichen Dokumentarfilm, der seit Monaten Publikum und Kritik auf den wichtigsten Festivals der Welt elektrisiert. Völlig zu Recht: Es ist, als würden einem die Scheuklappen weggerissen, als sähe man das, was sich seit Jahren direkt vor unseren Augen abspielt, zum ersten Mal unverschleiert... eine fesselnde ,Doku noir' mit höchstem Anspruch...Dieser Film müsste an allen Schulen gezeigt werden.“

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

17.05.2018