Monday, May 13, 2024 // 7 pm // Blue Salon // Room 012 // HfG Karlsruhe

After a long and nerve-wracking chase, Police Detective Kevin finally manages to arrest the powerful drug lord Chee! But when the key witness suddenly disappears for inexplicable reasons, Chee is released for lack of evidence. A fatal mistake, because as soon as he is released, the dreaded drug lord sets his men on the detective. When Kevin is also framed for the murder of a colleague, he begins to realize that a nasty game is being played here...

The film will be shown as part of the film series "The Cinema of Euphoria", in which the Kino im Blauen Salon explores the concept of euphoria and puts it up for discussion in all its diverse possibilities of representation and evocation.

Hong Kong/China 1985, 100 minutes, DCP, original version with German subtitles Director: Jackie Chan With Jackie Chan, Bill Tung, Chor Yuen, Lam Kwok-Hung and others. Preliminary program: 35mm cinema trailer show on the topic

Free admission, donation requested

Euphoria is one of those words that we have inherited from the ancient Greeks. And as with many of these words, the question is: what does it even mean? And since we are a film club, the question is of course: what does it mean to feel euphoria at the movies? Does the selection of films we have put together make us happy, in love with life? Can films still do this in an age in which the image has lost its power due to its inherent oversaturation?

In this summer semester, carried along by spring, we will take you on a journey that examines the concept of euphoria in all its diverse representational and evocative possibilities. From Jackie Chan to Werner Herzog, from Singing in the Rain to Leos Carax!