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Matinee Saxon State Archive 2023
Filmstill Doroga Zhizni – Road of Life
Doroga Zhizni – Road of Life
M. Markosov
Today, numerous memorials in Saint Petersburg commemorate the almost 900-day Siege of Leningrad. The “road of life” plays a special role in collective memory.
Filmstill Doroga Zhizni – Road of Life

Doroga Zhizni – Road of Life

Doroga Zhizni – Straße des Lebens
M. Markosov
Matinee Saxon State Archive 2023
Documentary Film
USSR
1965
12 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

Everyday life in casual street scenes in the Leningrad spring in the 1960s. A taxi driver suddenly remembers his transport missions on the so-called “road of life” during the German Wehrmacht’s 900-day blockade in World War Two. Iconographic images from the time of the Siege of Leningrad offer insights into how the people lived then.

Konstantin Wiesinger

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Director
M. Markosov
Sound
Yu. Osipov
Matinee Saxon State Archive 2022
Filmstill Tagebuch eines Schmalfilmers
Diary of a Narrow-Gauge Filmmaker
The experienced amateur filmmaker Liselotte Schließer looks back on her career and wonders at the low number of female directors and camera people.
Filmstill Tagebuch eines Schmalfilmers

Diary of a Narrow-Gauge Filmmaker

Tagebuch eines Schmalfilmers
Matinee Sächsisches Staatsarchiv 2022
Documentary Film
GDR
1975
10 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

Accompanying Liselotte Schließer, who worked full time as a technical draughtswoman, in her private and professional daily life. She talks about the passion that became her second mission in life. The only woman in organised amateur filmmaking for many years and now head of the amateur filmmakers’ association of Radebeul, she still misses female directors and camera people.

Konstantin Wiesinger

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Producer
Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF)