Introduction

Melodramatic Realism: Shared Time and Temporality in Gunther Scholz's and Carlos Cerda's Ein April hat 30 Tage

“…30 As a "time-based medium," film was ideally suited to bringing their distinct approaches to temporality into conversation. 31 Cerda and Scholz choose to frame their engagement with socialist temporalities within a shared unit of calendar time that culminates in May Day, layering the objective constraints of measured time with multiple temporalities. Their chosen genre, melodrama, derives its tension in part from the definitive passage of time and the knowledge that lost time cannot be recovered.…”