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DEFA Matinee 2022
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Jacki
Angelika Andrees
A perky 14-year-old girl at the centre of a lively, exhausting patchwork family model. The film stays close to its protagonists but indulges in quite a few digressions.
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Jacki

Jacki
Angelika Andrees
DEFA Matinee 2022
Documentary Film
GDR
1976
30 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

Andrees’ graduation project approaches the perky 14-year-old Jacki mainly through her social environment: the stressed patchwork family mother, the solitary long-distance truck driver father, the eclectic neighbourhood. The closer the film gets to its protagonists, the freer the movements of the camera become, gliding through a studio as if in a trance or flying over the nocturnal motorway as if over a UFO landing strip.

Felix Mende

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Director
Angelika Andrees
Script
Angelika Andrees
Cinematographer
Julia Kunert
Producer
Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen der DDR
DEFA Matinee 2021
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Jump, If You Can
Kurt Tetzlaff
In short sequences of images pointedly set to music by Louis Armstrong, we follow the pleasurable triumph of young life over the obstacles of setting out into the world.
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Jump, If You Can

Spring, wenn du kannst
Kurt Tetzlaff
DEFA Matinee 2021
Documentary Film
GDR
1985
4 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

In short sequences of images pointedly set to music by Louis Armstrong, the film follows the pleasurable triumph of young life over the obstacles of setting out into the world. As short as the film is and as curious its contents, the chequered story of its working and release titles is just as interesting. In 1987, the industry magazine “Film und Fernsehen” presented it simply as “A DEFA film by”. The text printed there ends with a sentence in brackets: (And many a viewer may marvel at the courage of the little ducklings and feel encouraged themselves.)

Philip Zengel

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Director
Kurt Tetzlaff
Cinematographer
Peter Ackermann, Siegfried Gebser
Producer
DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme