Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
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Konzert im Freien<br />
Günther ”Baby“ Sommer, Dietmar Diesner (photo © <strong>2001</strong> Ö Film)<br />
Genre History Category Documentary<br />
Cinema Year of Production <strong>2001</strong><br />
Director Jürgen Böttcher Screenplay<br />
Jürgen Böttcher Directors of Photography<br />
T. Plenert, L. Lenski, L. Böttcher,<br />
G. Becher Editor Gudrun Steinbrück<br />
Music by Günther ”Baby“ Sommer,<br />
Dietmar Diesner Producers Frank<br />
Löprich, Katrin Schlösser Production<br />
Company Ö Filmproduktion, Berlin, in coproduction<br />
with WDR, Cologne Principal<br />
Cast Günther ”Baby“ Sommer, Dietmar<br />
Diesner Length 88 min, 2408 m Format<br />
Digi Beta Blow up 35 mm, color, 1:1.65<br />
Original Version <strong>German</strong> Subtitled<br />
Versions English, French Sound<br />
Technology Dolby SR International<br />
Festival Screenings Berlin <strong>2001</strong><br />
(Forum), Visions du Réel Nyon <strong>2001</strong> With<br />
backing from BKM, Mitteldeutsche<br />
Medienförderung <strong>German</strong> Distributor<br />
Basis-Film-Verleih GmbH, Berlin<br />
Jürgen Böttcher, also known under his pseudonym “Strawalde”,<br />
was born in 1931 and grew up in a small village in the Oberlausitz.<br />
His childhood being overshadowed by the terror of the Nazi regime,<br />
he had a great desire for social change, and joined the Communist<br />
Party at the age of 17. He studied Painting at the Art Academy in<br />
Dresden. However, as a result of rising ideological turbulence, which<br />
led to his being blacklisted from the Association of Fine Arts, he<br />
was legally prohibited to continue his work as a painter. He then<br />
registered to study Film Direction at the “Konrad Wolf ” Academy<br />
for Film & Television in Potsdam in 1955. It wasn’t until the 1980’s<br />
however that his original work as a painter was finally recognized.<br />
With more than 30 films, he has attained cult status among cineasts<br />
and has become a moral and aesthetic authority for his East <strong>German</strong><br />
film colleagues at DEFA, the state-owned film studios of the former<br />
GDR. In 1991, he was awarded the Silver Ribbon for his film work,<br />
and is also honored with a portrait in the <strong>German</strong> Parliament. His<br />
films include: Ofenbauer (short, 1962) – winner of the Silver Dove<br />
Award, Jahrgang 45 (1965), Martha (1978), Die Frau am<br />
Klavichord (short, 1981), Rangierer (short, 1984), In<br />
Georgien (1987), Die Mauer (1990) and many more. Today,<br />
he lives and works again as a freelance painter in Berlin-Karlshorst.<br />
World Sales: please contact<br />
Ö Filmproduktion Löprich & Schlösser GmbH · Frank Löprich, Katrin Schlösser<br />
Lychener Str. 82 · D-10437 Berlin<br />
phone +49-30-4 46 72 60 · fax +49-30-44 67 26 26<br />
email: mail@oefilm.de<br />
A PLACE IN BERLIN<br />
Like a fossil, the ”Marx-Engels-Forum,“ a large, ambitious monument project from the former<br />
<strong>German</strong> Democratic Republic (GDR), adorns a central and historical spot in the middle of Berlin.<br />
Jürgen Böttcher’s experimental documentary incorporates his own footage from 1981–1986<br />
about the creation of this monument into new material, shot exclusively on location at the Marx-<br />
Engels-Forum. A vast collage with numerous levels: documentary shots of the artists involved at<br />
the time, and above all, intense observations of today’s visitors to this square’s anachronistic<br />
monument ensemble. Groups, families, couples, tourists from around the world often have their<br />
pictures taken in front of the stiff, stoic figures of Marx and Engels.<br />
Percussionist Günther ”Baby“ Sommer and saxophonist Dietmar Diesner are the musical guides<br />
through the film, giving it structure, propelling the different kinds of material – partly brittle,<br />
strange and even grotesque – to dance. A confrontation with history and art in Berlin’s new center.<br />
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