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It's easy to forget; Peter Sellers, a British comedian who started his career in the 50s, had a furious start in Hollywood thanks to his in-house director Blake Edwards, but also lots of stupid comedies. The Party, 1968, is definitely not an off-the-shelf Peter Sellers comedy. In Blake Edwards The Party, Sellers develops a character and simply plays it through. For better or for worse. Whereby; in The Party there are almost exclusively terrible moments. Sellers embodies Hrundi V. Bakshi, an Indian actor who politely, even delicately sabotages an entire evening. Supported by an incredibly drunk butler. Scene: The villa of a Hollywood producer with many, many guests and an elephant. The party there begins inconspicuously with cocktail music in the background. You nod at each other discreetly - representing your own status. Like at a Neuköllner Hipster Party. The music is discreet, everyone wears strange clothes. Behind them, however, madness slowly escalates. At first, the events remain painfully close to life. Could that happen to us? The film says: It's possible!

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The French found the term "Nouvelle Vague Allemande", the Germans say "Berliner Schule". But school is the wrong term for a loose group of directors who shoot mainly in Berlin and whose films are minimalist and oriented to everyday life. More and more often, however, one hears that these films of the Berlin School seem to be unworldly and hostile to the spectators. In 2001 the impossible happened, Christian Petzold's Arthaus Action film Die innere Sicherheit was awarded the German Film Prize. Petzold's fame was colored by Angela Schanelec (My Slow Life) and Thomas Arslan (The Beautiful Day). This was not the German mainstream with its bestselling films, but the revival of great role models such as Robert Bresson, Eric Rohmer or Kiarostami. When Christoph Hochhäusler's Milchwald ran at the Berlinale, he was given the label "Berlin School". Filmmakers grouped around the film magazine Revolver, Christoph Hochhäusler, Benjamin Heisenberg, Valeska Griesebach, Ulrich Köhler and Jessica Hausner, were now Berlin School. Formulating one's own subjectivity means alienating figures or places. The almost frozen-looking inner worlds of Milchwald, the apathetically observing sleeper of Heisenberg, the passengers of Petzold in ghosts. Just a moment ago friends or parents, disappeared in the next moment just like ghosts...

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Als ich Ghosts zum ersten Mal sah, bemerkte ich, wie aus dem Tiergarten so etwas wie ein Geisterwald wurde, da verstand ich, was das Label "Berliner Schule" eigentlich bedeutet. Zu aller erst umfasst es, nie mehr zu zeigen als das Allernötigste. In Ghosts erzählt Christian Petzold die Geschichte von zwei jungen Mädchen im Tiergarten und einem Paar, das seine verlorene Tochter sucht. Die Geschichte verknappt Petzold so konzentriert, dass es fast unheimlich wirkt. Je einfacher einer der vielen Möglichkeiten des Films dargestellt wird, desto mehr Alternativen dieser Möglichkeit zeigen sich auf. Da kreuzen sich die Wege zweier Mädchen. Und ein Paar tritt auf. Dann verschwindet ein Mädchen und alles löst sich wieder auf. Wie so oft, orientiert sich Petzold an Vorbildern. Hier am Märchen vom "Totenhemdchen" der Gebrüder-Grimm. Die Untoten erscheinen am helllichten Tag. Sie sind aber nicht gefährlich, sondern einfach nur auf der Suche nach einem Ort, zum Bleiben, Obwohl die Bilder von Christian Petzold den Eindruck machen, der Tiergarten wäre der kälteste Ort der Welt, spüren wir die Verzweiflung der Mädchen. Die Glut der Leidenschaft.