Film Archive

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Land (Film Archive)

Matinee Saxon State Archive 2021
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When the Anemones Bloomed
Kollektiv
A restrained and thoughtful look at the “Below Forest Death March” which leaves room for nuances: Concentration camp inmates leave carvings on the trees. The testimonies “grow over”.
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When the Anemones Bloomed

Als die Anemonen blühten
Kollektiv
Matinee Saxon State Archive 2021
Documentary Film
GDR
1983
7 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

A formally sophisticated and thoughtful film about the “Below Forest Death March” memorial site: In the late spring of 1945, this wooded area near Wittstock became an improvised temporary camp for inmates of the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps. They eternalized themselves and their fate by carving on the trees. But what does “eternal” mean? The trees grow, change and renew their skin …

Konstantin Wiesinger

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Director
Kollektiv
Producer
Cine-Pentama-Studio "Hans Beimler" VEB Kombinat Lokomotivbau-Elektrotechnische-Werke Hennigsdorf
Matinee Saxon State Archive 2022
Filmstill Frauen unserer Zeit
Women of Our Time
Hanna Emuth
According to the film’s voice-over, it is the duty of a factory’s women’s committee to “exert a constant influence on systematic ideological-political and technical qualification”.
Filmstill Frauen unserer Zeit

Women of Our Time

Frauen unserer Zeit
Hanna Emuth
Matinee Sächsisches Staatsarchiv 2022
Documentary Film
GDR
1969
15 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

The women’s committees in the GDR factories promote the technical and ideological-political qualification of female staff members. However, the film identifies deficits in the women’s private environment, since the men by their side often support their professional development only to a limited extent and the women’s multiple responsibilities persist despite state support.

Konstantin Wiesinger

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Director
Hanna Emuth
Script
Günther Mehnert
Cinematographer
Wolfgang Niestradt
Editor
Hanna Kubin
Producer
DEFA-Studio für Kurzfilme
Score
Peter Gotthardt
Matinee Saxon State Archive 2022
Filmstill Wir und unsere Umwelt
We and Our Environment
Hanna Emuth
Environmental protection was firmly anchored in the legislation of the industrial state of the GDR. The tension between exploitation and preservation of nature, however, seemed unresolvable.
Filmstill Wir und unsere Umwelt

We and Our Environment

Wir und unsere Umwelt
Hanna Emuth
Matinee Sächsisches Staatsarchiv 2022
Documentary Film
GDR
1971
27 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

On the occasion of the GDR Landeskulturgesetz (Law on the Conservation and Protection of the Environment), passed in 1970, the speaker explains the various aspects of environmental protection through vivid, visually pointed examples. The film repeatedly refers to the fundamental contradiction between exploitation and preservation of nature in a developed industrial state but is unable to resolve it.

Konstantin Wiesinger

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Director
Hanna Emuth
Script
Jürgen Hartmann, Herbert Mosch
Cinematographer
Manfred Heim
Editor
Monika Schäfer
Producer
DEFA-Studio für Kurzfilme
Score
Wolfgang Pietsch