Canale grande

Canale grande

1983 · 82 min · ★ 10.0 · Documentary

A young woman is fed up with the usual consumer's television and begins to make her own television, or more correctly, closevision. She is now a reporter who wanders around Berlin with her camera and 'telecasting apparatus' on her back. Her livingroom has been transformed into a studio and here the different programs are assembled and aired: statements, interviews, realistic and phantastic programs.

Directed by Friederike Pezold · Written by Friederike Pezold

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