

Your gran's driving horror stories: the educational film edition.
Direction
Helmut Reininger's aggressively functional staging.
Production
Peak late-80s institutional filmmaking budget: approximately 47 Deutsche Marks.
Director
Helmut Reininger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
West German traffic safety films of this era were notorious for their grim pragmatism—part of a broader state-funded media landscape that treated citizens like forgetful children.
Director Helmut Reininger specialized in exactly this: short, stern educational content for government agencies, making him the unsung auteur of German bureaucratic cinema.
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