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DEFA in Person: Kurt Tetzlaff 2020
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Memories of a Landscape – To Manuela
Kurt Tetzlaff
An entire landscape south of Leipzig is transformed: personal histories are overturned, villages disappear – chalked up as pawns sacrificed for brown coal opencast mining.
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Memories of a Landscape – To Manuela

Erinnerung an eine Landschaft – Für Manuela
Kurt Tetzlaff
DEFA in Person: Kurt Tetzlaff 2020
Documentary Film
GDR
1983
84 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

A controversial filmic parable on the loss of homes and the destruction of nature in the name of industrial progress: Between 1979 and 1982, the village of Magdeborn, which was regarded as an obstacle to brown coal mining south of Leipzig, is demolished. The locals are resettled, mostly against their will, to Grünau, Schönefeld and Borna. Those portrayed in this cinematic requiem rarely mince words when they call themselves pawn sacrifices and bargaining chips for the economic needs of the state. Officially, Tetzlaff and his team were attested an unacceptable emotional closeness to the people.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Kurt Tetzlaff
Script
Kurt Tetzlaff, Joachim Niebelschütz
Cinematographer
Karl Faber, Eberhard Geick
Editor
Manfred Porsche
Producer
DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme
Sound
Hartmut Haase
Score
Gerhard Rosenfeld
Narrator
Kurt Tetzlaff