NICHT VERSöHNT ODER ES HILFT NUR GEWALT, WO GEWALT HERRSCHT

\"Not Reconciled\", the title of the Straubs' first feature-length film is engraved on their work like an inscription. It is a story of the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression and the terror of reconciliation, loyalty, treason and revenge. In a brave cinematic game, Heinrich Böll's story \"Billiards at Half-past Nine\" is split up into cracks, blocks, breaks and sudden turns, as the story of a German family life, covering numerous generations is propelled forward. Terms such as \"interwar period\" and \"post-war period\" are blown up with a single cut, word or click of a billiard-ball. \"Not Reconciled\" remains the most important German film of the past 50 years.