BRASCH - The wish and the fear
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | BRASCH - The wish and the fear |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Christoph Rüter |
| script | Christoph Rüter |
| production | Gerd Haag |
| camera | Thomas Brasch , Patrick Popow , René Kirschey, Christoph Rüter |
| cut | Heidrun Schweitzer |
| occupation | |
BRASCH - Desires and Fear is a German documentary by Christoph Rüter from 2011 about the writer, playwright, poet, director and translator Thomas Brasch .
action
When the poet Thomas Brasch died on November 3, 2001 at the age of 56, he left behind one last unfinished piece ("A fairy tale comedy from Berlin") and 28 DV cassettes. They contain interviews, self-talks, private observations and protocols that allow an unfiltered view of the living circumstances and the private environment of the artist; partly created by himself with a handheld camera, partly by his friend Christoph Rüter . Rüter assembles this material together with archive recordings, television reports, film clips and other documents to create a very personal portrait of the former GDR dissident . In addition to biographical traces, film sequences from Brasch's feature films Engel aus Eisen , "Domino", The Passenger - Welcome to Germany and theater excerpts from his plays "Rotter" and "Lieber Georg" are shown. His speech on the occasion of the Bavarian Film Prize presented by Franz Josef Strauss is also included, during which Brasch, accompanied by protests, expressly thanks the GDR Film School for his education.
criticism
“And yet, what do you know about a life if you only know its stages? Not much, says Christoph Rüter, whose haunting portrait “Brasch. The wishing and the fear ”is now coming to the cinema. “The conflict was his life, the pain was his eye, the wound was contact with the outside world,” says Rüter. And all of that - the unmitigated form of existence Brasch - the film exposes us to. Nothing of the usual assurances about the past, especially no conversations with contemporary witnesses. Only one person speaks here, says Rüter, and that is Brasch himself "
“Christoph Rüter creates an intimate portrait of his friend Thomas Brasch that never becomes sentimental or even seems artificial. An homage that is not only melancholy at times, but also hurts at times. As Brasch said several times in an interview: it is the wound that interests him, the crack that goes through people. "
background
BRASCH - Wishing and Fearing was premiered in 2011 at the Berlinale in the Panorama section.
Web links
- BRASCH - The wish and the fear at Christoph Rüter Filmproduktion
- BRASCH - The wishes and fear in the Internet Movie Database (English)