24h Berlin - a day in the life
| Movie | |
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| Original title | 24h Berlin - a day in the life |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 1440 minutes |
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| Director | Volker Heise and 68 episode directors |
| production |
Thomas Kufus ; zero one film, rbb , ARTE |
| camera | 83 cameramen |
| cut | Annette Muff, Wolfram Kohler, Christina Preußker, Valérie Smith, Rudi Zieglmeier |
24h Berlin - A Day in the Life is a 24-hour television documentary about Berlin and its residents. It reports in real time on the everyday life of more than 50 protagonists from various professions , social classes , religions and ethnicities . The shooting took place on September 5th and 6th, 2008, the first broadcast was on September 5th and 6th, 2009. Volker Heise was responsible for the idea and the overall direction .
production
The preparations lasted over three years and around 500 people were cast. 80 shooting teams with a total of 316 employees began shooting on Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 6:00 a.m. The film was shot in all parts of Berlin until 6:00 a.m. the following day. This resulted in 750 hours of film material, which was edited by a ten-person editing team for almost a year.
The film teams involved include the directors Brigitte Bertele , Arpad Bondy , Thomas Heise , Romuald Karmakar , Volker Koepp , Elfi Mikesch , Rosa von Praunheim , Andres Veiel , Andreas Voigt and Dominik Wessely as well as the cameramen Frank Griebe , Benedict Neuenfels and Thomas Plenert . The most famous protagonists include Daniel Barenboim , Thomas de Maizière , Kai Diekmann , Gerd Harry Lybke , Werner Sonne , Ricardo Villalobos , Paul van Dyk , Sasha Waltz and Klaus Wowereit .
construction
The documentation is divided into 20 to 30 minute sections. The stories of the protagonists each stretch over several hours, in some cases through the whole day and night. The individual narrative strands alternate with one another and always return to individual protagonists. In between, there are interviews with passers-by on various topics and films sent in by Berliners. The action is always accompanied by a commentary, which also explains the geographic and infrastructural data of Berlin.
Publications
The first broadcast took place simultaneously on several European TV channels. In Germany, these were the broadcasters ARTE and rbb Fernsehen involved in the production . Were joined Holland Doc 24 ( Netherlands ) and YLE Teema ( Finland ). The full 24 hours were broadcast exactly one year after the recording, on September 5, 2009 from 6 a.m. in real time: The time of the respective action corresponded to the real broadcast time.
The following week rbb television showed a repetition in six four-hour parts in the night program. Since November 2009, several broadcasters have shown a 110-minute film version of the documentary under the title 24h Berlin - The Film .
The complete documentation with background information has also been available since November 2009 as a box with eight DVDs.
In 2012 the Deutsche Kinemathek published an online archive on 24h Berlin . Under the motto First we take Berlin , the roughly 750-hour raw material from 2008 will be presented on a website.
Reviews
For Ursula März von Zeit online , the film is a "unique project in German television history, a project with a Guinness record-like format" . She praises the "introduction of that form of curiosity that the intimacy-obsessed vulgar voyeurism of the tabloid media and trash television almost forgot: emphatically participating, every second respectful, dignity-preserving and therefore poetry-capable." The result is "simply incredibly entertaining".
Christiane Peitz complains in the Tagesspiegel that the directors' handwriting “fell victim to the uniformly digitally ironed look”. “Knowledge, including curiosity, needs patience. '24h Berlin' offers the opposite: the city broken up into bits and pieces, the fully formatted day. The only thing that holds the film together is the voiceover, who announces loads of Berlin numbers [...] and utters so many truisms that the suspicion creeps that the broadcasters have either a completely stupid or extraterrestrial audience in mind. "
Christian Buß calls the broadcast in Spiegel online “a kind of anthropological archive”. It is the "most monstrous attempt to date to cheat the continual coming and going." He also praises: "It is remarkable how Heise [...] distilled extremely many individual fates from the mass of material and from the anonymity of the big city."
Torsten Körner writes in the Funk Korrespondenz of September 18, 2009: “As a school of seeing, '24h Berlin' encouraged the viewer to take a closer look at their own life, but also their own program, because the feature film went beyond all common formats it is clear how limited and manageable the everyday television program is. And that's the crux: This film has blown everyday life by being radically immersed in everyday life. [...] “24h Berlin” is a lifebuoy in the sea of television, something we can hold onto. “24h Berlin” is a media imperative to mistrust the media and thus also television if it does not trust itself to be able to save us. Where television doesn't give us anything, no real sensation or knowledge, we'd better switch off. And so '24h Berlin' is also the longest television review of all time. "
Fritz Wolf states in epd medien , issue 71/2009: “You can see that the successful '24h Berlin' project is much more than a mirror in which television is copying real life. It can be understood as an attempt, implemented with great skill, to counter the general disappearance of the real from the media with something tangible and credible before the avatars of Twinity occupy our image and world knowledge. "
Awards
24h Berlin - A Day in the Life was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize 2010 in the Information & Culture / Series & Multipart category. In addition, Volker Heise (idea and direction) and Thomas Kufus (production) were nominated for the special prize of the Adolf Grimme Prize. On May 21, 2010, Thomas Kufus and Volker Heise received the Bavarian TV Prize for the project . In July 2010 the Evangelical Church in Germany announced that Volker Heise would be awarded the Robert Geisendörfer Prize for 24h Berlin . For the development and production of 24h Berlin , Volker Heise and Thomas Kufus also received the German Television Prize 2010 in the category Special Achievement Information .
Web links
- 24h Berlin - A Day in the Life at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 24h Berlin at zero one film
- First we take Berlin - online archive of the raw material
- 24h Berlin at arte and 23-minute video editing
Individual evidence
- ^ First we take Berlin ( memento of April 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on April 3, 2013
- ↑ One day of humanity in Berlin , Zeit Online from September 3, 2009
- ↑ So much effort, so much disappointment , Tagesspiegel.de of September 2, 2009
- ↑ To the exact day , Spiegel online from September 4, 2009
- ^ The enormous simultaneity of life ( memento of October 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Funk Korrespondenz online of September 18, 2009
- ^ Encounters and alliances - “24h Berlin” as a television and city event , second publication at evangelisch.de
- ↑ Church honors Volker Heise for “24h Berlin” , evangelisch.de of July 29, 2010