A dream in strawberry foil
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A dream in strawberry foil |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marco Wilms |
| script | Marco Wilms |
| production |
Gunnar Dedio Marco Voss Marlen Burghardt |
| music | Moritz Denis Eike Hosenfeld |
| camera | Lars Barthel István Imre Jörg Jeshel |
| cut | Christian Fibikar |
| occupation | |
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A Dream in Strawberry Foil (also with the title Comrade Couture ) is a German documentary film by Marco Wilms from 2009 about the East Berlin fashion scene . The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 7, 2009 in the Panorama section and was then shown at numerous film festivals. At the Italian Kimera Film Festival in 2010 the film received the Audience Award and the Award for Best Film . The German theatrical release was on April 23, 2009. A Dream in Strawberry Foil was produced by LOOKSfilm in Leipzig (producer: Gunnar Dedio ). HELDENFILM, COBOS Film BV and ZDF were co-producers in collaboration with ARTE , AVRO, ORF and YLE Teema.
content
The film shows the parallel world of the fashion - and survival artists of East Berlin - a fantasy world in the middle of the restrictive everyday life in the GDR . Here it was possible to step out of line, to be individual and provocative. The most important distinguishing feature of this scene was the personal style, which you couldn't buy in GDR times. You had to create your own individual image.
The director Marco Wilms , himself a model at the fashion institute of the GDR at the time, wants to recreate the lifestyle of economic lightheartedness and radical difference. He seeks out the heroes of his East Berlin youth: the designer Sabine von Oettingen , the photographer Robert Paris and the stylist and hairdresser Frank Schäfer and explores their dazzling parallel world life with them. After two decades, the members and friends of the legendary East Berlin avant-garde fashion theaters "Chic, Charmant und Permanhaft" and "Allerleirauh" meet again at a "subversive" Eastern Bloc party initiated by Wilms.
background
At the beginning of the 1980s the fashion group "chic, charming & permanent" emerged from a close circle of friends in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . 1983 saw the first appearance of the fashion group in the private apartment of the photographer Helga Paris. The group included, among others: Yvonne Bergemann , Esther Friedemann , Domenique Windisch , Sabine von Oettingen , Robert and Jenny Paris , Katharina Reinwald , Sven Marquardt , Frank Schäfer and Jürgen Hohmuth . The costumes of “chic, charming & permanent” consisted partly of GDR consumables, such as foils for gardening needs. After the dissolution, other groups took up the impulses.
criticism
“Marco Wilms' witty, finely ironic, with contrasting images tells of this bizarre underground lifestyle made of jokes and romps, sex and the unrestrained desire to be different in the shadow of the wall, of this bohemian, this revolt 'young tiger in the iron cage of dictatorship' documentary film 'A dream in strawberry foil' from the state-supporting GDR existence. "
Web links
- A dream in Erdbeerfolie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A dream in strawberry foil on the LOOKSfilm website
- A dream in strawberry foil - data sheet at the Berlin International Film Festival 2009
- Couture for comrades . Berliner Zeitung , April 23, 2009.
- Director Wilms stages East Berlin fashion . Der Tagesspiegel , April 21, 2009.
- A dream in strawberry foil . Deutschlandradio Kultur , April 22, 2009.
- Collection of links to the film at filmz.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ A dream in strawberry foil. LOOKS homepage, April 23, 2009, accessed January 7, 2017 .
- ^ Chic, charming & permanent, East Berlin, 1983 to 1985. German Historical Museum , accessed on December 19, 2013 .
- ↑ All negative young people. Die Welt , August 24, 2009, accessed on September 28, 2010 .