5 comments on the documentary
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| Original title | 5 comments on the documentary |
| Country of production | FRG |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 61 minutes |
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| Director | Gisela Tuchtenhagen |
| script | Gisela Tuchtenhagen |
| production | West German Broadcasting Cologne |
| camera | Gisela Tuchtenhagen |
| cut | Hella Vietzke |
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5 comments on the documentary is a documentary from Germany in black and white of the director Gisela Tuchtenhagen from the year 1974 . The film first aired on October 11, 1974 on West 3 . It deals with the characteristics, production conditions and goals of the documentary in the media-political environment of the FRG in the 1970s.
content
The film develops 5 questions about the documentary film against the background of the media-political situation of the early 1970s in the FRG. The following topics will be developed: (1) the personal approach of the filmmaker Klaus Wildenhahn to his profession; (2) the technical and manual approach of the cameraman Rudolf Körösi ; (3) the evolution of the documentary based on the British School of Documentary by John Grierson ; (4) the working conditions and political framework for the production of documentaries at WDR and NDR ; (5) the constitutive characteristics of the socially relevant documentary film.
The starting point of the film is a publication by Klaus Wildenhahn under the title On Documentary and Synthetic Film , from which it is extensively quoted. The theses represented therein represent the central theme of the film.
In addition to interviews with Rudolf Körösi, Peter Nestler and Klaus Wildenhahn, panel discussions with editors from the WDR and camera assistants from the NDR and a reflection by Angelika Wittlich, the film is accompanied by numerous film quotes. The following documentaries will be shown in the order of presentation:
- A jazz organist from America, 1965. Directed by Klaus Wildenhahn
- In the Foreign, 1967. Director: Klaus Wildenhahn
- Drifters , 1929. Directed by John Grierson
- Coalface, 1935. Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
- Ödenwaldstetten , 1964. Directed by Peter Nestler
- Att vara Zigarne, 1970. Director: Peter Nestler
- Love for the Country, 1973. Director: Klaus Wildenhahn
The theses on documentary film represented in this film can be summarized as follows: (1) By perceiving apparently incidental things, the documentary film destroys the advertising effect of the official. Similar to black jazz in the United States, it creates a counter-public. (2) It is not the maker / speaker of the documentary film that is the most important protagonist of the documentary film, but the sitters themselves. (3) The basic requirements for the production are funding from public broadcasters in order to avoid commercialization of the private film industry. (4) Cooperation between documentary filmmakers, camera personnel and assistants as well as screenwriters beyond the individual project is of great importance in terms of cross-editorial networking. (5) The "special status of the documentarists" is located between the wrangling over competencies in the editorial offices and the political framework and power relations and must use the existing leeway. (6) The documentary aims to publish current conditions that carry hope for a better future.
reception
In a public screening of the film as part of the Hamburg Documentary Film Week in April 2017, Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Peter Nestler and Klaus Wildenhahn comment on the creation and reception of the film. Here Gisela Tuchtenhagen emphasizes that after the film was broadcast, Angelika Wittlich was strongly criticized, especially with regard to her comments on the prevailing production conditions in public television broadcasters.
Web links
- 5 comments on the documentary in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 5 comments on the documentary at filmportal.de
- Hans Helmut Prinzler's Bibliography: About Documentary and Synthetic Film.
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Wildenhahn: About documentary and synthetic film. 12 reading hours. German Film and Television Academy Berlin, Berlin 1974.
- ↑ Public discussion on the film with Tuchtenhagen / Wildhahn and Nestler. In: Recorded on Vimeo. April 23, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .