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A 9 minutes shorty isn't exactly much - but may make one think more than 9 minutes. I suppose it's a student piece from Berlin or Potsdam - black and white, but widescreen, and fascinating in its way.

Spoilers galore: A man sets up a contraption to shoot himself. A gun whose trigger is bound to a mechanical toy, a drumming panda on a little cart driven by clockwork. Test run works well. Now he enables the gun and straps himself to the chair (last hand with a handcuff), and lets the panda run... With destiny on its way, he looks around, sees a photo of woman and child. Looking out of the window, he sees a pram with a crying baby that starts rolling into the street. Frantically, he frees himself from the bonds, runs out, saves the baby just before it is run over by a truck, lifts it from the pram, sees another man smiling at him, and himself looking out of the window...

In the end his contraption works.

Questions. Was he just fantasizing the baby rescue? That's most plausible to me. Who was the smiling man? All in all, an interesting little piece. And by the way, another allusion to Bronenosets Potyomkin (the runaway pram) :^)

This 8-minute short film is a good example of what happens when a filmmaker comes up with a super-smart story and screenplay, but does not possess the creative tools to bring this story to screen convincingly. It's black-and-white and 20 years old and you don't need to be able to speak German to understand it as there is no dialogue included here. A man is seemingly held prison and he probably has OCD and that's why he tries to keep the toy from falling off the table because he actually goes out and attempts to save the crying baby. The end has some minor time travel and gunshots and it's all just too much for this runtime. Marcel Kyrill Gardelli, the writer and director, did not succeed with his short film here and I guess there is a reason why he hasn't been shooting any new films since 1998 and only television commercials. The only actor in here is Heinz Hoenig ("Das Boot") and I guess he is also the reason why this film is not entirely unknown. But it's not really worth a watch.