An old police car and two police officers are standing next to a deserted road. All around them is nothing but snow and the long road.

© Park Circus/Amazon MGM 

Fargo

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Sun 25.10.26, 20:00

Kinemathek – Hall

Risk goes cult and becomes unpredictable in the Coen Brothers’ star-studded and deliciously strange crime story ‘Fargo’. In snowy Minnesota, car salesman Jerry Lundegaard sends two kidnappers after his wife in the hope that his father-in-law – and boss – will put up the ransom and thus solve Lundegaard’s precarious financial situation. Matters escalate quickly and the increasing death toll calls pregnant and unwavering police chief Marge Gunderson into action. ‘Fargo’ had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 where Joel Coen took home the Best Director Award. The film went on to win two Academy Awards, a BAFTA and two Critics Choice Awards.

USA 1996, directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 98 min, OV
Introduction: Elisa Jochum (Deutsche Kinemathek)
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When Sun 25.10.26, 20:00
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Film Info

D: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
W: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
C: Roger Deakins
E: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen as Roderick Jaynes
M: Carter Burwell
A: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Harve Presnell
P: Working Title Films
Prod: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
WP: 1996

Original format: 35mm, color
Screening print: 4K DCP, 98 min, Park Circus 

Restoration Information

The 4K restoration from the original camera negative was supervised by director of photography Roger Deakins in 2023.

Elisa Jochum

is a film scholar and cultural historian with a doctorate in the field. Since 2022, she has been head of the film archive at the Deutsche Kinemathek, including overseeing the archive’s distribution and programming work. As the lead curator of the “Film Restored” festival, she is responsible for the strategic and thematic direction of the event as well as its program. Since 2025, she has served on the executive committee of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). She holds seminars on audiovisual history and archiving at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg for the next generation of filmmakers. Jochum has previously undertaken work and research at institutions including the Goethe-Institut, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University College London and Yale University.

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In 2026, the Deutsche Kinemathek’s film heritage festival explores risk in cinema. We are examining the perils facing film producers and distributors; looking at the challenges encountered in archives and during restoration work; and showing films about characters who have everything at stake. These are layers of risk that often overlap and are mutually reinforcing.

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