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Retrospective 2022
Filmstill Remembering Means Living
Remembering Means Living
Róża Berger-Fiedler
A walk across the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee and through the Jewish history of the city. The private and the historical, past and present flow into each other.
Filmstill Remembering Means Living

Remembering Means Living

Erinnern heißt Leben
Róża Berger-Fiedler
Retrospective 2022
Documentary Film
GDR
1987
59 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

Róża Berger-Fiedler’s walk through the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee in search of her grandmother’s grave turns into a walk through the chequered Jewish history of the whole city. Interspersed are impressions of Chanukah celebrations at the “Restaurant of Nationalities” Café Moskau in Karl-Marx-Allee in East Berlin, light-drenched and devout. The film artfully interweaves the past and present of active Jewish life with memories of expulsion and annihilation, brings private and historical perspectives together and thus creates a sensitive approach where in the GDR formal distance was long dominant.

Felix Mende

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Director
Róża Berger-Fiedler
Script
Róża Berger-Fiedler
Cinematographer
Karl-Heinz Müller
Editor
Róża Berger-Fiedler
Producer
DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme
Sound
Eberhard Schwarz