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Retrospective 2022
Filmstill Vivos Voco – I Call the Living
Vivos Voco – I Call the Living
Dagnija Osite-Krüger
Bells have long defined humanity’s rhythm. Their ringing still touches us to the marrow. Dagnija Osite-Krüger’s exploration is monumental, even eery in nature.
Filmstill Vivos Voco – I Call the Living

Vivos Voco – I Call the Living

Vivos voco – Ich rufe die Lebenden
Dagnija Osite-Krüger
Retrospective 2022
Documentary Film
GDR
1981
22 minutes
German
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“Bells ring for victim and perpetrator alike, they ring for the master and the servant, the sounds falling into each other, beginning and end, life and death, sleep and awakening, work and prayer.” Helga Schütz’s lyrical verses are closely interwoven with Dagnija Osite-Krüger’s exploration of bells and their many shapes. Whether melted down as tools of war or warning of danger – “Vivos Voco”, which also teaches us about the craft of bell founding, envelops us in an eery, monumental and epochal way. In her auto-fictional biography, Schütz writes about the collaboration with Osite-Krüger: “The two of us and the film, we were a team, we and the co-determinant images.”

Carolin Weidner

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Director
Dagnija Osite-Krüger
Script
Helga Schütz
Producer
DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme
Sound
Elmar Blimke
Score
Peter Gotthardt