The Wall (1990)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The wall |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jürgen Böttcher |
| script | Jürgen Böttcher, Thomas Plenert |
| production | Stephan Röder |
| camera | Thomas Plenert |
| cut | Gudrun Steinbrück |
The Wall is a German documentary film from 1990 in which the artist Jürgen Böttcher processes his personal impressions from the last days of the Berlin Wall . The film was produced by DEFA -Studio für Dokumentarfilme GmbH and had its premiere on October 5, 1990 in the Arsenal cinema in Berlin.
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Jürgen Böttcher, known in the GDR as the painter "Strawalde", shows scenes such as Potsdamer Platz , the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate as well as disused underground train stations. At the moment the Wall was destroyed, he used it for historical film quotes, from the German Empire to the Nazi dictatorship to the time of German division .
reception
The film service described the film as a "meditation on the time towards the end of 1989/90". Böttcher captures the wall "in spontaneous observations as in calculated panel paintings". In doing so, he succeeded in "exciting shots of disused underground train stations and metaphorical images of the breaking up of the 'anti-fascist protective wall'". The “processing” is “always appealing and interesting” when the “well-known images from television features are 'revised' with experimental courage”.
Awards
The film won the FIPRESCI Prize (Forum) at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1991 and received an honorable mention at the European Film Prize in the same year .
Web links
- The wall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The wall at filmportal.de
- The wall at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ The wall. In: Filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on June 3, 2015 .
- ^ The Wall (1990). film service , accessed June 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 3, 2015 .