Dresden Interregnum 1991

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Movie
Original title Dresden Interregnum 1991
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 60 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
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Director Werner Kohlert
script Werner Kohlert
production primera Fernsehproduktionsgesellschaft mbH
music Olivier Messiaen
camera Werner Kohlert
cut Olaf Frackmann
Movie poster
Still seen in the film:
The Lenin Monument on Leninplatz (today Wiener Platz)

Dresden Interregnum 1991 - Ein Poem ( Interregnum , Latin for "interim government") is a German documentary by Werner Kohlert that was shot between 1990 and 1991 in Dresden . The premiere took place in 2009 in Dresden's Programmkino Ost .

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The documentary shows views of the city of Dresden shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall . In addition to the city's sights, "corners, streets [...] and banalities of a city as it rises up shortly after the upheaval" were recorded. In addition to the ruins of the Frauenkirche , the film shows almost forgotten aspects of the city today, such as Dresden's Neustadt , which was almost in ruins at the time, and the Lenin monument on Leninplatz .

Emergence

Between the fall of the Wall and the reunification , the filmmaker Werner Kohlert (* 1939) was commissioned by the city of Dresden to document Dresden in 1990. For this he received 6,000 meters of 35 mm film from the Agfa company . Kohlert was on foot and using public transport during filming. He carried a film camera ( ARRIFLEX 35 II), a wooden tripod, heavy rolls of film and even heavier motorcycle batteries. Bringing a sound recording device was beyond the possibilities.

According to the director, the material should 'store, mature'. Only after 19 years did he evaluate the resulting 3.5 hours of film and create a script and a completely drawn storyboard. With the editor and sound engineer Olaf Frackmann , he put the images together to make a one-hour film. The film was accompanied by passages from the volume of poetry " The Flowers of Evil " by Charles Baudelaire and music by Olivier Messiaen . The film negative was scanned with high resolution. Since the film work had taken place without sound, noises from original vehicles such as Trabants , Wartburgs , trucks or old trams were reproduced with specially rented vehicles.

Quotes

“When I saw my footage from then, I was scared and depressed. I almost forgot how and where we lived. I was speechless. "

- Werner Kohlert

criticism

"But the film is always a moving journey into the past for long-time residents as well as an open window that has become rare with a view back for all those who are not familiar with the condition of this beautiful city in GDR times."

- Tuuli Dresden on lesbia.de

“This film is like fine wine. The material had to be stored for 19 years - until it was ready for its audience, and until its audience was ready for this film. "

- Saxon newspaper

effect

“The film has been shown in the cinema in Dresden since December 17, 2009 and is almost always sold out, with over 8,000 visitors by the end of February 2010. In the meantime, public forums are being formed with urban planners, among others. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christina Wittich: Decay and Awakening. In: Sächsische Zeitung of December 18, 2009, p. 7.
  2. ↑ Tuuli Dresden: Dresden 1991 - moving journey into the past. ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Formerly on: lesbia.de, February 16, 2010
  3. ^ Sibylle Muth: Dresden Interregnum 1991 - A Poem. In: "artour". MDR television , January 4, 2010, archived from the original on February 9, 2010 ; accessed on January 1, 2014 .