Everything else shows the time

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Movie
Original title Everything else shows the time in Leipzig and elsewhere, 1989–2015
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Andreas Voigt
script Andreas Voigt
production Klaus Schmutzer
camera Sebastian Richter
cut Kathrin Dietzel

Everything else shows time is a documentary by Andreas Voigt from 2015. It marks the end of the Leipzig film series.

Background: The Leipzig films

The Leipzig Films , a series of films that was made between 1987 and 2015, brings together six long documentaries. It started back in the days of the GDR , and for almost 30 years it tells the life stories and fates of people in Leipzig , the second largest city in East Germany, and has become a moving document of a time of upheaval.

  • Alfred , shot in the autumn of 1986, was Voigt's graduation film at the film school. As a single biography of a Leipzig worker from the 1930s to the present (film) it is a bit out of the ordinary, but is counted as well.
  • Leipzig in autumn emerged in October 1989, shortly before the wall came down , on the streets of the city during the Monday demonstrations and documented a.o. a. the huge mass demonstrations. The film was shot without an “order”; it was completely unclear whether the material could ever be shown.
  • The next film, Last Year Titanic , seamlessly follows on from Leipzig in autumn . From December 1989 to December 1990 he tells of five people in the last year of the GDR and the beginnings of unified Germany. Among them are "Isabel", a then 14-year-old girl, and "Renate", a journalist who reports on her contact with the Stasi .
  • 1993 Faith Love Hope was born . Radical young people from the right and left scenes are accompanied over a year. One of the portrayed is "Sven".
  • In Big Wide World in 1997 Voigt returns to some of the protagonists from the earlier films to see what has become of them and their dreams and wishes. He visited u. a. also "Renate", "Isabel" and "Sven".

The last film for the time being, Everything Else Shows Time , was made in 2014/15.

action

25 years after the end of the GDR and reunification, the director visits three of the protagonists from the earlier films and see what has become of them. Again and again, scenes from the old films are juxtaposed with current developments.

  • "Isabel" - then a member of the gothic scene and without hope - is now an insolvency administrator in Stuttgart.
  • "Jenny" - daughter of the journalist "Renate" - goes on a search for the fateful story of her family after her mother's suicide.
  • “Sven” - back then at the beginning of a career in the army - struggles through life as an unemployed person.

production

This film by Andreas Voigt is the continuation of the long-term documentary that began with Leipzig in autumn . The life of the protagonists in the Federal Republic is now longer than the time they spent in the GDR, which - especially due to the inclusion of the archive material, which is up to 25 years old - has a special effect.

The world premiere was on October 26, 2015 as part of the 58th International Documentary Film Week in Leipzig, where it opened the program and was shown in public on a large screen at Leipzig train station parallel to the festive event .

The film was released on DVD in August 2016.

criticism

Andreas Voigt simply masters his craft, the way he assembles material from 25 years, which is also remarkable because he undermines everything that you think you know about the 'turning point' and 25 years of reunification, everything you have in terms of expectations - to the last picture: The winners are not the winners and the losers are not the losers - you have to do that first.

DOK program director Grit Lemke on Andreas Voigt's Leipzig cycle

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