If François Truffaut made “The American Night”, that is, the cinema in the cinema, “The German German Genius” by Detlev Buck and Cüneyt Kaya with Kida Khodr Ramadan as the protagonist and an important participation by Ricky Gervais is television on television, and the Das the first and most important feeling evoked by the eight chapters is that of desolation.
Kida Khodr Ramadan, a Berlin-based Lebanese with an extensive career as an actor, producer and director, has enjoyed great and critical success as Toni Hamady, the star of the series 4 Blocks, and it is precisely this success that encourages him to promote a new production, which is none other than the German version of Extras, the British series created by Ricky Gervais, who gave him the rights for the adaptation. It begins its slow and steady descent into the territory of indifference. Meetings, antechambers, more meetings, an exhausting search for funding, wild and crazy egomania, spontaneous script changes, disagreements… until pettiness takes over the house. Some critics noted at the time that the feature film about the Watergate case “All the President’s Men” led to a significant increase in the number of journalists. We anticipate that after watching the HBO Max series, the number of aspiring TV series creators will drop significantly.
What was intended as a comical suggestion ends up becoming a kind of hagiography by Leni Riefenstahl, albeit, yes, with luxe cameos like those of Wim Wenders and Volker Schlöndorff and a Kida Khodr Ramadan that gradually accepts an undeniable reality: the jungle has long since stepped over the asphalt. As I said: the last one to turn off the light.
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