20 × Brandenburg

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Movie
Original title 20 × Brandenburg - people, places, stories
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 300 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director various
script Andreas Dresen (artistic director)
Johannes Unger (idea / project leader)
production DOKfilm, Jost-Arnd Bösenberg, Christoph Bicker

20 × Brandenburg - People, Places, Stories is a documentary produced by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) in cooperation with DOKfilm Fernsehproduktion GmbH Potsdam-Babelsberg and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , which was released on the occasion of the 20th birthday of the State of Brandenburg in 2010 originated. A similar project came about in 2013 on the Day of German Unity with the documentary 16 × Germany .

Emergence

Under the overall artistic direction of Andreas Dresen , well-known directors shot stories about the country and people between Uckermark and Lausitz. Dresen has combined 20 short documentaries, each 15 minutes long, which represent the directors' personal point of view - one of them by Dresen himself about the workers in a truck factory - to form a five-hour complete documentary work about the state of Brandenburg and its people. “Something like this is called a bus project in the industry. Everyone involved is on a journey with a common goal, but everyone can look out the window in their own way and make very different discoveries. " (Andreas Dresen)

The partial films shot by 20 film teams at 20 different locations in the summer of 2010 show a wide variety of topics from the most varied of regions of the country from the perspective of the respective directors. 300 minutes of broadcast were cut from a total of 10,000 minutes of film material.

The first broadcast was on October 1st, 2010 from 8.15 p.m. on rbb television. The audience rating was 8.5 percent; 170,000 viewers across Germany saw the film, 130,000 of them in Berlin and Brandenburg.

Movies

The documentary consists of the following 20 films:

Awards

For the documentation 20 × Brandenburg - People, Places, Stories , Andreas Dresen and Johannes Unger received the 47th Grimme Prize in the Information & Culture / Special category on April 1, 2011 in Marl .

Reviews

"The unusual project [fulfills] the task set by the people in charge of creating a 'documentary painting about the country' in front of the audience, very convincingly."

- Grimme Institute : Jury reasoned

literature

DVD

  • 20 × Brandenburg - people, places, stories (3 DVD box, running time approx. 7 hours), extras: interviews with the directors of the project and 8 short films from the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" under the title GenerationXXBrandenburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for 20 × Brandenburg . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b rbb Shop: DVD 20 × Brandenburg - People, Places, Stories ( Memento from June 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ High audience rating for “20 × Brandenburg”. rbb press release 108/2010 of October 4, 2010
  4. ^ Grimme Institute: Nominations Information & Culture 2011 ( Memento from August 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b Grimme Institute: 20 × Brandenburg, reasoning by the jury ( memento from October 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )