Blues is just life
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Blues is just life |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 26 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Bernd Maywald Helmut Heine |
| production | College for Film and Television of the GDR |
| music | Engerling Blues Band Berlin |
| camera | Helmut Heine |
| cut | Gerda von Dorszewski |
Blues is simple life is a documentary of the Academy of Film and Television of the GDR, Potsdam-Babelsberg on Engerling Blues Band Berlin by Bernd Maywald and Helmut Heine from the year 1976 .
action
At the beginning of the film, the drummer Rainer Lojewski, of the profession of use advertiser has learned and is currently working as a graphic designer, the musicians of the white grub Blues Band Berlin in the composition of 1976 and talks in which professions they are at home and how they got together. Heiner Witte is a guitarist and express deliverer at Deutsche Post , the second guitar is played by the electrical mechanic Bernd Kühnert, while the bass guitar is operated by the freelance commercial artist Michael Arnold. Wolfram Bodag, whose instruments are the keyboards and the harmonica and who is also responsible for the vocals, works as a house handyman.
As you can see from the recordings, the rehearsal cellar is clearly located in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , on Eberswalder Straße at this time . Here the camera accompanies the musicians during rehearsals for a longer period of time. These images are interrupted by an interview in which Wolfram Bodag talks about his path to music and especially the blues in his old Berlin apartment in the back of the building. The film ends with a longer recording of a concert .
production
Blues is simply life was shot as a black-and-white film on 16 mm material as a diploma film for the GDR Academy of Film and Television, Babelsberg . Since no official premiere date could be found for the film, although a video created in 2006, which is identical to the film from 1976, is represented twice on You Tube, I simply put September 22, 2018 and September 25, 2018 with one each First performance in the Berlin Zeughauskino .
The dramaturgy was in the hands of Angelika Mieth, the scenario was developed by Manfred Hoffmann and Helmut Heine.
Web links
- Blues is simply life Film introduction by Jeanpaul Goergen in the Zeughauskino of the DHM on September 22, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Film announcement Zeughauskino des DHM Berlin