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The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

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Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

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On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

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Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.

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In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

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For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

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Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

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Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

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Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

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I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Director

Born: August 14th, 1945

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