The view

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
Original title The view
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1966
length 10 mins
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Kurt Krigar
script Kurt Krigar
production Kurt Krigar
music Horst A. Hass
camera Kurt Krigar
cut Anneliese Krigar

The view is a documentary film by Kurt Krigar from the year 1966 .

action

The director and his team drive through Bernauer Strasse in the West Berlin district of Berlin-Wedding and look for the place where the cemetery is in the east. One can only guess that the bricked up house facades do not allow a view from the street, because the Berlin Wall has been located here since 1961 . In a house on the west side he recognizes an open window on one of the upper floors, from which an elderly woman is looking out; there he wants to start his film about the street.

The tenant, who has lived there for 28 years, married in Silesia in 1924, had children and moved to this apartment in Berlin in 1939, thinking that Berliners were very fine people. She describes her everyday impressions to the film team and also the story of her life. She lost her eldest son in the war , as did her husband. She tells of the beginning of the construction of the wall, when they did not dare to turn on the light in the apartment, so much was she frightened by the border guards, who still shoot with rifles now and then. Nor does she understand that the line was drawn at all, because the city was one, the tram went through here, you walked back and forth between West and East, went shopping on both sides and there were also friendships. Now the houses on the east side will be demolished up to the level of the first floor and only the front walls will remain. Beyond that, everything is razed to the ground in order to achieve a better view. Now you also have a view of the cemetery, which is also being razed to the ground in the immediate vicinity of the border, which means that the gravestones are also being removed. To do this, sharp dogs run along a tightrope so that no visitor to the cemetery can approach. Only the Church of Reconciliation is still standing, even if it already looks a bit dilapidated.

The camera shows the former intersections of Bernauer Strasse with Brunnenstrasse and Strelitzer Strasse . At the end there is a viewing platform from which you can see Schwedter Straße and Oderberger Straße to the east. Several buses with tourists arrive here every day who, in the opinion of the pensioner, do not even notice what is going on, because they cannot get a picture in the short time of their visit. The souvenirs that can be bought there can be found in almost every visitor's home. Only those who live there permanently experience the border correctly.

Production and publication

The premiere took place in February 1966 during the West German Short Film Festival in Oberhausen .

Awards

Web links