From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services No.1

1985 0h 11m DE

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★5.8TMDB · 13

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Synopsis

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A woman threatens to jump off a crane with her two young children in order to secure affordable housing.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Silvia Klaas
Die Frau
Nina Franoszek

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Helke Sander
Writers: Helke Sander
Languages: No Language
Countries: Germany

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RUNTIME

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Tight 11-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

ERA

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41 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Helke Sander, shot by Martin Gressmann. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Ursula Höf shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Silvia Klaas and Nina Franoszek carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0124030 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 13 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Helke Sander directs. Martin Gressmann behind the camera. Ursula Höf cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Germany. Dialogue in No Language.

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1Tight 11-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
241 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Directed by Helke Sander, shot by Martin Gressmann. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Ursula Höf shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Silvia Klaas and Nina Franoszek carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt0124030 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 13 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Martin Gressmann
Editing: Ursula Höf
Runtime: 11 min · 0h 11m
Status: Released
Original language: DE
IMDB: From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services No.1 (1985)

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CinemaSerf2026-02-12
★ 6/10
A mother and her two children are wandering around a city replete with construction sites. She takes them into one and then after sticking a notice to the base of one of the cranes, they proceed to ascend to the top. The notice? It declares that unless she can find somewhere affordable for them all to live, they are going to jump. On the face of it, this is a pretty savage critique of society in a wealthy, industrialised, nation that cannot house it’s own citizens. We don’t, however, know anything about her or the reasons for her obvious predicament therefore we have no context upon which to make anything more than a cursory evaluation of a ten minute feature that rather leads us by the nose to a conclusion it wants us to reach.

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