Thank God Im in the Film Business

Eva Ebner is a Berliner who gives the appearance of being rather eccentric She knows the film business inside out regardless of whether shes work ing behind the camera as an assistant director or in front of it as an actor Her name is closely associated with a series of nowlegendary adaptations of Edgar Wallaces crime novels which were made in Germany during the 1960s Upcoming young directors from local film schools have also profited from Ms Ebners unbroken enthusiasm and passion for film However this eightyyearold has a more than broken relationship to the events of her childhood and youth in Gdansk a time when her life was characterised by an antiSemitic stepmother and the dangers posed by the Nazi regime This film portrait does not eschew any of the long dark shadows of that era nor does it sidestep any friction between portrayer and his subject Lothar Lambert