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Cast

Hellmuth Costard

Hellmuth Costard

Applicant

Hilka Nordhausen

Hilka Nordhausen

Gallery owner

Andy Hertel

Andy Hertel

Painter

Werner Grassmann

Werner Grassmann

Film producer

Herbert Jeschke

Herbert Jeschke

Friend

Hark Bohm

Hark Bohm

First Director

Wolfgang Treu

Wolfgang Treu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Second Director

Michael Ballhaus

Michael Ballhaus

Harry Baer

Harry Baer

Horst Knechtel

Horst Knechtel

Andréa Ferréol

Andréa Ferréol

Gisela Stelly

Gisela Stelly

Petra Nettelbeck

Petra Nettelbeck

Uwe Nettelbeck

Uwe Nettelbeck

Critic

Dieter Meichsner

Dieter Meichsner

Rolf Hädrich

Rolf Hädrich

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Guest

Crew

Hellmuth Costard

Hellmuth Costard

Producer

Susanne Paschen

Susanne Paschen

Editor

Hellmuth Costard

Hellmuth Costard

Writer

Hellmuth Costard

Hellmuth Costard

Director

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Little Godard

19780.0 / 1084 min
Documentary

Overview

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.