1989 – Lieder unserer Heimat. Himmlischer Frieden
Schwarwel
Episode from a series of animated films about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution.
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1989 – Lieder unserer Heimat. Himmlischer Frieden
Credits
Producer
Sandra Strauß, Schwarwel
Director
Schwarwel
Music
Schwarwel
Animation
Schwarwel, Dirk Reddig, Sara Bock, Laura Wempen
Script
Schwarwel
Sound
Schwarwel
Episode from a series of animated films about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution. Here and elsewhere. Questions of personal courage and resistance. Elsewhere and here.
Ralph Eue
Ralph Eue
1989 – Lieder unserer Heimat. Ich liebe – ich liebe doch alle.
Schwarwel
Episode from a series of animated films about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution: Erich Mielke.
1989 – Lieder unserer Heimat. Ich liebe – ich liebe doch alle.
Credits
Producer
Sandra Strauß, Schwarwel
Director
Schwarwel
Music
Schwarwel
Animation
Schwarwel, Dirk Reddig, Sara Bock
Script
Schwarwel
Sound
Schwarwel
Episode from a series of animated films about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution. Erich Mielke (1907–2000) is completely lost as he wanders through the new era and declares his love for the people. He is surrounded by the rubble of the fallen GDR and his former Ministry for State Security.
Ralph Eue
Ralph Eue
Berlin, 2. Juni 1967
Thomas Giefer, Hans-Rüdiger Minow
Footage of the protests against Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Shahansha’s visit to West Berlin, which ended in Karl-Heinz Kurras’s fatal shooting of Benno Ohnesorg. A pivotal work for...
Credits
Director
Thomas Giefer, Hans-Rüdiger Minow
Cinematographer
Skip Norman
Script
Thomas Giefer, Hans-Rüdiger Minow
Footage of the protests against Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Shahansha’s visit to West Berlin, which ended in Karl-Heinz Kurras’s fatal shooting of Benno Ohnesorg. A pivotal work for the understanding of every potential for resistance that evolved in the Federal Republic after that date.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Die Erklärung des ersten Kapitels Luce das doch eyn yeder lernte mit eynem halb aug sehen
Andreas Goldstein
20 years ago this Easter, the Bischofferode potash miners tried to fight against the state’s post-reunification politics ...
Die Erklärung des ersten Kapitels Luce das doch eyn yeder lernte mit eynem halb aug sehen
Credits
Producer
Ute Hirschberg, Holger Lochau
Director
Andreas Goldstein
Music
Hanns Eisler
Cinematographer
Axel Schneppat
Editor
Elke von Sivers, Jörg Nußbaum
Script
Thomas Müntzer
Sound
Gunnar Schlafmann
Speaker
Volker Tancke
20 years ago this Easter, the Bischofferode potash miners tried to fight against the state’s post-reunification politics. This uprising took place in a landscape steeped in history: Thomas Müntzer fought here. Andreas Goldstein draws the appropriate parallels and conclusions in his work.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Die Grenze
Franz Winzentsen
The victors have reinforced Germany’s internal border on the map with endlessly renewed pencil markings, and their eraser has worn itself out. A graphical experiment.
Credits
Director
Franz Winzentsen
Music
Jens Peter Ostendorf
Cinematographer
Franz Winzentsen
Editor
Franz Winzentsen
Animation
Franz Winzentsen
Script
Franz Winzentsen
Sound
Uwe Knott, Lutz Homann
Speaker
Franz Winzentsen
The victors have reinforced Germany’s internal border on the map with endlessly renewed pencil markings, and their eraser has worn itself out. A graphical experiment.
Die Moskauer Prozesse
Milo Rau
In 2013, the director Milo Rau re-enacted two trials of the Russian state against artistic freedom at Moscow's Sakharov Centre.
Die Moskauer Prozesse
Credits
Producer
Arne Birkenstock
Director
Milo Rau
Cinematographer
Markus Tomsche
Editor
Lena Rem
Sound
Jens Baudisch
In 2013, the director Milo Rau re-enacted two trials of the Russian state against artistic freedom at Moscow's Sakharov Centre. He supplemented the "historical" project - about the trials against the shows "Caution! Religion" (2003) and "Forbidden Art" (2010) - with the Pussy Riot "case" (2012) which not only drew incredible attention to his production, but also transformed a theatrical exhumation into an open-heart surgery.
Ralph Eue
Ralph Eue
Ent-grenzt: Fernsehen von nebenan. Sächsisches Lokalfernsehen 1990 bis 1995
various
Ent-grenzt: Fernsehen von nebenan. Sächsisches Lokalfernsehen 1990 bis 1995
Credits
Director
various
In the Erzgebirge a West German “investor” calls the residents „natives“ who had better decide whether they want his money. The Leipzig Round Table rejects Coca Cola as a sponsor for a music event. In Görlitz a young city councillor botches a “Waiters’ Contest”. In Laubusch a minister observes the arrival of the first German expats from the Ukraine in Direct Cinema style. Images that can’t be found in any public television archive: local television reports. The camera is close and everywhere, the unbiased interviewers are neighbours of their viewers and themselves involved in the processes they record, calling for feedback and taking up a position.
Judith Kretzschmar, Rüdiger Steinmetz
Judith Kretzschmar, Rüdiger Steinmetz
Es werde Stadt!
Dominik Graf, Martin Farkas
Half a century of the Grimme Television Prize as an occasion for some critical and polemical reflections on two times twenty-five years of Federal German (television) history.
Credits
Producer
Megaherz TV Fernsehproduktion GmbH
Director
Dominik Graf, Martin Farkas
Music
Florian van Volxem
Cinematographer
Martin Farkas, Roman Schauerte
Editor
Rolf Wilhelm
Script
Dominik Graf, Martin Farkas
Narrator
Jeanette Hain, Philipp Moog, Martin Umbach
Half a century of the Grimme Television Prize as an occasion for some critical and polemical reflections on two times twenty-five years of Federal German (television) history.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Grauguß
Peter Badel, Dieter Chill
1990: a year of uncertainty. What effect did the restructuring of the job market have on the employees of GISAG AG, a traditional foundry in Leipzig? A raw and unpolished documentary that is very rarely shown.
Credits
Producer
Roman Gustke
Director
Peter Badel, Dieter Chill
Cinematographer
Peter Badel, Dieter Chill
1990: a year of uncertainty. What effect did the restructuring of the job market have on the employees of GISAG AG, a traditional foundry in Leipzig? A raw and unpolished documentary that is very rarely shown.
Hunger in Deutschland
Hunger in Deutschland
Documentary Film
Germany,
Soviet Union
1924
29 minutes
Subtitles:
Russian Captions
Credits
Producer
Studiya Meshrabpom
Germany starves once more. Soon after WWI, disaster looms again: rapid currency devaluation, queues for a loaf of bread, slums. Crowds of people gather to protest; WIR campaigns originally intended for the Soviet Union are launched in Germany now. Statistics and animations explain the causes and extent of the misery. Workers’ councils meet in Dresden, followed by demonstrations of the Black Hundreds against Fascism. Willi Münzenberg is able to look back with pride upon the achievements at the IAH world congress in Berlin in 1923. This programmatic German-Russian co-production was believed lost until a Russian version was discovered in the Krasnogorsk archive.
– Alexander Schwarz
– Alexander Schwarz
Im Schatten der Weltstadt
Documentary Film
Germany
1930
16 minutes
Subtitles:
German Captions
Credits
Producer
Studiya Meshrabpom
Director
Albrecht V. Blum
This compilation film with its fast-paced montage and sense of comic timing uses contemporary documentary material. Today, the most interesting elements are the scenes of working class life in Berlin that stand for the inhuman housing conditions in the working class districts of other global metropolises.
– Günter Agde
– Günter Agde
Jorge – Tod eines Vertragsarbeiters
Matthias Heeder, Monika Hielscher
The film reconstructs the violent death of a Mozambican who was thrown off a tram in Dresden in 1991, and attempts to piece together his life. A xenophobia that reared its new and ugly head directly after reunification. Depressingly topical.
Jorge – Tod eines Vertragsarbeiters
Credits
Producer
Martha Stern
Director
Matthias Heeder, Monika Hielscher
Music
Machira
Cinematographer
Robert Berghoff
Editor
Margot Neubert-Maric
Script
Matthias Heeder, Monika Hielscher
Sound
Lars Wendt
The film reconstructs the violent death of a Mozambican who was thrown off a tram in Dresden in 1991, and attempts to piece together his life. A xenophobia that reared its new and ugly head directly after reunification. Depressingly topical.
Negativnächte
Susanne Schüle, István Imreh, Robert Laatz
Negativnächte
Credits
Producer
HFF „Konrad Wolf“, Balázs Béla Stúdió
Director
Susanne Schüle, István Imreh, Robert Laatz
Music
Attila Grandpierre, Viktor Lois, László Waszlawik
Cinematographer
Susanne Schüle, István Imreh, Robert Laatz
Editor
Susanne Schüle, István Imreh, Robert Laatz
News & Stories: Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens
Alexander Kluge
A typically laconic Kluge report about Einar Schleef’s scandalous production of Rolf Hochhuth’s scandalous play “Wessis in Weimar: Scenes from an Occupied Country”.
News & Stories: Veränderung ist das Salz des Vergnügens
Credits
Producer
dctp – Entwicklungsgesellschaft für TV Programm mbH
Director
Alexander Kluge
Cinematographer
Walter Lenertz
Script
Alexander Kluge, Einar Schleef
Sound
Michael Kurz
A typically laconic Kluge report about Einar Schleef’s scandalous production of Rolf Hochhuth’s scandalous play “Wessis in Weimar: Scenes from an Occupied Country”.
Olaf Möller
Olaf Möller
Rodina heißt Heimat
Helga Reidemeister
In 1991, West German director Helga Reidemeister seized the opportunity to get to know the Soviet soldiers and their families stationed in the Meiningen Garrison.
Rodina heißt Heimat
Credits
Producer
Ziegler Film, ZDF, Arte
Director
Helga Reidemeister
Music
Andi Brauer
Cinematographer
Peter van den Reek, Thomas Keller, Axel Brandt
Editor
Ursula West
Script
Helga Reidemeister
Sound
Katharina Geinitz, Klaus Klingler, Andreas Mücke-Niesytka, Evelyn Schmidt
In 1991, West German director Helga Reidemeister seized the opportunity to get to know the Soviet soldiers and their families stationed in the Meiningen Garrison. She accompanies them back to their homeland, which is no longer the same. The collapse of an empire and the consequences for people.
Rote Pfingsten
Documentary Film
Germany
1928
21 minutes
Subtitles:
German Captions
Credits
Producer
Studiya Meshrabpom
Director
Carl Junghans
In the late 1930s, the Rote Frontkämpferbund (Alliance of Red Front-Fighters, RFB) organised annual Whitsunday meetings, in uniform and with revolutionary slogans, but without arms. The main purpose of these rallies was to publicly demonstrate the German proletariat’s readiness to fight. This film is a report from the fourth Reich assembly of the RFB in Berlin on Whitsunday 1928.
– Günter Agde
– Günter Agde
