The Female Documentarists of the GDR 3

Films

Wer ein paar Holzlatschen abgelaufen hat …

Filmstill Once You’ve Worn Out the First Pair of Wooden Shoes …
Wer ein paar Holzlatschen abgelaufen hat …
Gabriele Denecke
GDR
Retrospective
A visit to the quarrymen at the Reinhardtsdorf open cast mine: The film pierces through the dimensions of this traditional job and sets out on a sometimes hallucinatory trail.

Wanderzirkus

Filmstill Travelling Circus
Wanderzirkus
Angelika Andrees
GDR
Retrospective
A travelling circus, its audience and the people and animals that make up its core. An uncommon everyday life unfolds with a fine sense of rhythm and situations.

Wer fürchtet sich vorm schwarzen Mann

Filmstill Who’s Afraid of the Bogeyman
Wer fürchtet sich vorm schwarzen Mann
Helke Misselwitz
GDR
Retrospective
Prenzlauer Berg depends on reliable coal deliveries, even in the watershed year of 1989. Renate Uhle and her men deliver the briquets, followed by a direct camera.

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