Unfortunately, this month's screening of
Magical Mystery by Arne Feldhusen in our #GermanFilmklub is cancelled.
The novel adaption starts in the techno era of the mid-90s in the recently reunited Germany. On the day of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Karl Schmidt disappears after a nervous breakdown and only found again a few years later by his friends Ferdi and Raimund in a drug therapy facility in Hamburg. This reunion comes just in time as Ferdi and Raimund plan to on a rave tour across Germany with a techno record and they urgently need a "sober" driver. “Charlie” what the other two have always nicknamed Karl, is the perfect sober driver for the trip because he has renounced all drugs and no longer wants to participate in that lifestyle. Thus begins a journey through a reunited Germany that also sees the beginning of reunited friendships.
Born in Rendsburg, Arne Feldhusen worked in the early90s as an assistant director and assistant editor and directed numerous German television formats such as
Ladykracher,
Stromberg and
Der Tatortreiniger. He also shot commercials for advertising campaigns and music videos. At the beginning of 2014 he made his first feature films
Stromberg-Der Film and
Magical Mystery, the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Sven Regner. Since 2018, Feldhusen has been producing the series,
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast), which is on Netflix.
Please note, this film will be shown in German with English subtitles. Admission is free, but the number of seats is limited, so be sure to register at
bib-toronto@goethe.de
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