GUARDIAN ANGELS (GERMANY)

It all begins at a site right in the city centre. A brigade of international fire-fighters drives up in a fire truck. »This is an exercise« they say. Emergency measures in controlling fire situations are to be demonstrated. The firemen quickly unroll hoses, extended ladders and unleash amid all the tumult their fireworks of situation comedy, absurdities and explosive images. They stumble over language barriers and unhinge hierarchies of authority. The furious doings of the actors quite incidentally turn everyday routines and viewpoints upside-down and astound their audience with the unexpected. They play skilfully upon people's craving for sensationalism. Whether pyrotechnic display or fountains of water from the fire engine: they are modern adventurers who present a spectacular and insistent playing with fire and compel their public now to be amazed, now to laugh.

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