TALENTPROBE

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TALENTPROBE

Director: Peter Goedel
Documentary | Germany | 1980
142 min | Dolby Stereo

58th Hof International Film Festival
2024
|8|16|35| – HoF Classics on Film

Shot in the summer of 1979 at a public event in Cologne’s Rheinpark, this documentary shows Udo Werner’s ‘talent contest for everyone’, as well as concerts by Udo Jürgens and a Beatles revival band, among others. The talents face a crowd of 5,000 people armed with whistles, hooters, and other equipment, who demonstrate their displeasure loudly and mercilessly. The performers are expected to finish their acts even in the face of this noise.

Screenplay Peter Goedel, Herbert Hoven, Cinematography David Slama, Axel Brandt, Erich Krenek, René Perraudin, Editing Peter Goedel, Wolfgang Höpfner, Sabine Jehnert, Music Hans Barani Combo, Production Peter Goedel