Help me ID this German television event

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timecode_%28film%29

This isn't probably what you're looking for, but it's close.

Oh yes, I've heard of that!! Everyone says it's awful :-(

This isn't going to help at all, but I did see a bit of some multiPOV movie on a Dutch channel (or rather two). Didn't really seem that grebt to be honest so I gave up. Never heard of the series though.

Incidentally, I'm going to Germany today, I could ask my German friends if they remember such a series.

It might have been Dutch!! Do you remember what it was called?

There was a British program called The Norman Conquests with Tom Conti that consisted of three episodes, each taking place in the same house over the same weekend but varying in where each scene took place. I thought it was pretty good. Not what you're thinking of (unless it was dubbed and shown simultaneously on three channels), but in the ILX spirit I note it anyway.

Mörderische Entscheidung

In 1991 two German TV stations produced Mörderische Entscheidung (Murderous Decision) by Oliver Hirschbiegel, a cross-genre story somewhere between film noir and detective movie. The film was shot in two versions: one was from the perspective of a woman, the other followed a male figure. Both films began identically, then separated, sometimes met in double version of scenes with both characters, and at the end became identical again. What is interesting about Mörderische Entscheidung is that it demonstrates in almost didactical fashion all possible relations between the two narrations. Hirschbiegel uses the narrative voids we know from film noir as a general style to give the viewer the feeling that a lack of certain information is not caused by zapping incorrectly. To make sure that main story remains understandable important information was given on both channels at the same time. Hirschbiegel also tried to direct audience attention towards one channel - if not to say make people zap due to boredom - by reducing the amount of information given on the other channel.

http://keyframe.org/txt/interact/

I thought Timecode was great. OK, maybe not great but certainly well worth watching. Better to see it in the cinema though unless you have a really big TV.

It might have been Dutch!! Do you remember what it was called?

Nope, sorry. :-( I think it was a foreign language film. Actually I think it was french.

Least helpful post evah, I know. :-(

I enjoyed Timecode in the cinema. The split screen thing on its own was entertaining enough, with any of the stories being half interesting/funny being a bit of a bonus.

The really bad thing about Timecode was the incidental music... because they were doing the real-time thing they should not have had any. If they had to have some, anything would have been better than the M. Le Sting softy jazz shite that Figgis feels obliged to polute his films with.

The different channels thing sounds like a larf.

Nathalie, I seem to remember something like that on RTBF and La Deux a couple of years ago, (the french language channels in Belgium), but I don't know anything more than that either (second least helpful post evah!)

Or are we both wrong and was it something that was broadcast on Canvas (dutch subtitles) and La Deux (french subtitles) simultaneously? Dementia :-/

Wasn't there a Doctor Who thing like last year that did this?