The world of ghosts
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The world of ghosts |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 6 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joachim Hellwig |
| script |
Claus Ritter Joachim Hellwig |
| production | DEFA studio for documentary films, KAG defa futurum |
| camera | Wolfgang Randel |
The world of ghosts is a DDR - Documentary - Short or non-feature film in the sense of Dziga Vertov about West German science fiction - pulp fiction , especially the Perry Rhodan series, in the Artistic Working Group (KAG) defa futurum was produced. The world premiere took place on January 4, 1974.
action
The cover pictures of West German science fiction novels , especially the Perry Rhodan series, are assembled with a musical collage of electronic music and the song Glory, glory, hallelujah and bound by a speaker. The brightly colored cover pictures mainly show spaceships in combat or space soldiers fighting against aliens , monsters or robots . According to the spokesman, the viewer sees “original images of capitalist science fiction books” in the film for the first time . Hundreds of millions of these pennies would be sold to young people by a publishing industry and cause a shock to the future. In the end, the speaker explains that this future is not "our", but as "we" want it. It remains to be seen what this future should look like.
Production background
Work on the film within the defa futurum group began in 1972. Why the production was only released in cinemas at the beginning of 1974 is unknown. According to their own information, Hellwig / Ritter wanted to stimulate the young audience to think critically in a concise and deliberately partisan agitational form . By September 30, 1974 the film is said to have been seen by around 1.44 million viewers.
literature
- Günter Jordan / Ralf Schenk : Black and white and color. DEFA documentary films 1946-92 , Berlin (Jovis) 1996. ISBN 3-931321-51-7
- Joachim Hellwig / Claus Ritter: Findings and problems, methods and results in the artistic design of socialist visions of the future in film with special consideration of the experiences of the AG defa-futurum , Leipzig (Phil. Diss. Karl-Marx-Universität ) 1975, p. 192– 194.
- Simon Spiegel: Pictures of a better world. The utopia in non-fictional film , Marburg 2019, pp. 179–211. ISBN 978-3-7410-0340-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hellwig / Ritter, p. 194.