Brasch family

Movie
Original title	Brasch family
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2018
length	103 minutes
Age rating	FSK from 6
Rod
Director	Annekatrin Hendel
script	Annekatrin Hendel (concept) ; Jörg Hauschild (concept)
production	Annekatrin Hendel
camera	Thomas Plenert , ; Martin Farkas
cut	Jörg Hauschild
occupation
	Gerda Brasch (archive material only) ; Horst Brasch (archive material only) ; Klaus Brasch (archive material only) ; Marion Brasch; Peter Brasch (archive material only) ; Thomas Brasch (archive material only) ; Lena Brasch; Florian Havemann; Katharina Thalbach; Ursula Andermatt; Bettina Wegner; Petra Schramm; Joachim von Vietinghoff; Alexander Polzin; Christoph Hein;

The Brasch family is a German documentary film by Annekatrin Hendel from 2018 about the East German functionaries and artists family Brasch. The film premiered on June 29, 2018 at the Munich Film Festival . The German theatrical release was on August 16, 2018.

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After 1945 Horst and Gerda Brasch were actively involved in the “building of socialism” in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR . Horst, a SED - party official , is People's Parliament deputy and in 1963 Deputy Minister of Culture . But in the 1960s the generation conflict between father Horst and son Thomas breaks out and the father turns against the son, who has to go to prison after protests against the crackdown on the Prague Spring . But his son's conviction also dealt a blow to his own political career. Son Thomas becomes a well-known writer in the GDR. The three other siblings Klaus , Peter and Marion also work in the cultural sector. In 1989, first of all, Horst's father died and then, at the latest, everyone else's dream of socialism in the GDR ended. In addition to Marion and Lena Brasch, the only surviving family members, the actresses Katharina Thalbach and Ursula Andermatt , the poet Christoph Hein , the songwriter Bettina Wegner , the artists Florian Havemann and Alexander Polzin and the film producer Joachim von Vietinghoff speak .

The Buddenbrooks of the East , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 15, 2018
The Buddenbrooks of the East , Tagesspiegel, August 16, 2018
You can hear the silent backdrop , taz, August 16, 2018
The last witness , new Germany, August 15, 2018

↑ Brasch family. In: Munich Film Festival. 2018, accessed July 10, 2018 .
↑ Documentary "Brasch Family" - A Century Family in the GDR . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . June 29, 2018.