„At the recently concluded Kolkata Film Festival, Romain Maitra found an incredible

actress in the diminutive Mira Gittner from Munich. If you happened to have seen her

in Roland Reber’s new film, The Dark Side of our Inner Space, screened at the

recently-concluded Kolkata Film Festival, the strange acrid edge of her acting talent

could not have eluded you. You might have felt in retrospect the dark cry in her

visage as though she had crunched her teeth on the worm in the apple of our desire.

We saw her exposing the raw fibres of our psychological constitutions, to glare at the

hidden contents of the forms that we are, almost with the intensity of a Klaus Kinski

face in Aguirre, the Wrath of God….

And among all her works, the one that dwell memorably for a long time is her

soul-searching act in The Dark Side of our Inner Space as we see light falling on her

piercing and timeless gaze while she utters, „Where does it start? “…

(R. Maitra, Star File: Talent & The Self: Mira Gittner, The Statesman, India 2003)

„The Dark Side of Our Inner Space is a work of a true poet…

When I finished watching the film I had the same sense of excited satisfaction that

I’ve had on rare occasions when I’ve been privileged to see and hear magnificent world-class performers on the opera stage or talented musicians playing in perfect

harmony under the direction of a brilliant maestro on the symphony stage...

„ Jessie is dressed with her nudity like with a gown of concrete. The less she wears

the more she covers the poverty of her existence…. When we free our locked in

thoughts- this carcinoma of stored up fantasies- from the jail of our soul, the pus might run off which drown our yearning in the poison of non lived life… Maybe we all are figures standing in front of a mirror, just seeing ourselves in our loneliness… as true as any lie…”

... these are the words of a poet, a very gifted poet... The acting, as an ensemble

work and as individual performances, is first rate from beginning to end. The direction

is crisp and generally moves the story along at a pace that seldom lags and always

held my interest. The often harsh lightning and the up close and very personal

cinematography not only kept me in a state of excited tension but also invited me into the film as though I were the camera. the editing was beautifully done without resorting to gimmicks... This is indeed a stunning, brilliant cinematic achievement.“

(Gordon Weaver, Film publicist and Academy member, Hollywood)

„I am very impressed by your film, as because of the directing and the acting performance, the viewer gets the impression to be part of the Game.

Finally I believe you managed, to display to the viewer, in a nearly frightening realistic way, how inside a small group of people the fight for power of the most intimate wishes and feelings can be driven forward, regardless of any personal relationships.

This film is something very precious in a not now discovered genre of new German cinema.”

(Dietmar Wladek, Journalist)

„All his films are quest for life, identity and self. Philosophy is translated into his films.

He regretted the lack of  zeal among German youth to venture into the meaning of life.

Superficiality and affectation steer them more than truth. They are lost souls in the

fun and entertainment jungle of today’s so called developed civilisations. German

youth lead their life in the labyrinth of sheer entertainment without any anticipation

and apprehension about life.

At this point Reber’s films strike and illuminate the dark side of our inner soul.

(Shamshad Ali, Daily Bulletin, Calcutta Film Festival, 2003)

„a bizarre German film, that plays with reality and  deceit and is presented in Sitges04 in the Section „Europa Imaginaria“...“

( El Diario del Festival, SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema 2004)