Anekdote aus dem letzten preußischen Kriege

"Anekdote..." is an excellent experimental short after a classic German short story by Heinrich von Kleist. The original story takes you about eight minutes to read and that's exactly the duration of the film. While an off-speaker recites the story, the action set in the Anglo-Prussian war against Napoleon in the early 19. century develops in the same speed. Basically every comma is a shot, every half-sentence a cut.

The story told deals with an incident about a lone officer of the Prussian husars. The cavalry-man bravely enters an almost deserted village already taken by French troops and one-handedly and with great calmness engages three Frenchmen while ordering some snack and drink while the pub-owner starts panicking to get him out in the face of the foreign invaders.