The small town

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Movie
Original title The small town
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2018
length 67 minutes
Rod
Director Philipp Majer
production Bunkhouse movie
music Datashock
camera Philipp Majer
occupation
  • Regina Landau-Greiner
  • Richard Saeed
  • Thomas Krauch
  • Martha Adler
  • Manfred Adler
  • Gerald Franz
  • David Drechsler

Die Kleinstadt is a German documentary about the city of Pirmasens by the director Philipp Majer .

The film was produced by Bunkhouse Film and was released in 2018.

Emergence

The small town is the first documentary film about the city of Pirmasens. Up until then there were many negative reports about the city, including a. at Spiegel TV , who drew attention to the bad statistics. This film shows the negative as well as the positive sides and lets the residents have their say. At the same time, the film gives an insight into the lives of the protagonists in a humorous way. The film manages in an intimate and honest way to capture the contradictions of the city without bothering morality.

content

The focus of the film is on the inhabitants of Pirmasens, a town on the edge of the Palatinate Forest . The city was famous as a shoe metropolis, but globalization and the departure of American armed forces are causing problems for the city . Jobs and residents have been lost and the city has to fight against bad statistics and negative headlines.

The film portrays people who don't have much in common except for their love for their city: seven people from different social classes are accompanied in the film and show their view of the city.

Awards

The film won the Special Jury Award at the Germany International Film Festival in Munich in 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ germanyfilmfestival | WINNERS In: germanyfilmfestival.com , accessed on December 11, 2018.