Thomas Bernhard - Three Days

Synopsis: This portrait of the Austrian writer, Thomas Bernhard, combines a monologue delivered by Thomas Bernhard and the artful film work of Ferry Radax. The location chosen for three summer days is a park in Hamburg full of huge old trees. While sitting on a white bench, Bernhard talks about dark childhood memories, his youth, and his struggles with writing. A striking element is his high praise of obstacles as "material for the brain." 1970, 52 minutes. The DVD also includes a 40-minute interview with Ferry Radox by Georg Vogt, recorded in 2006. In it Radax talks about the work process during the production of his film on Thomas Bernhard and how his shooting concept enabled Bernhard to open up and talk about his past for the first time, which later appeared in his autobiographica prose.

DVD extras include a bilingual (German/English) booklet "Resistance and Productive Inefficiency - On Ferry Radax’
television portrait Thomas Bernhard - Three Days", by Georg Vogt
Language: German (Standard) (German with English subtitles)
Country: Germany
Year of release: 2010
Subjects: Film studies; German studies; Literature
Keywords: biographies; interview techniques; literature - German; Film & television production; Bernhard, Thomas; Radax, Ferry; writers - Austrian

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