Photo: Ostkreuz
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Photo: Ostkreuz |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Maik Reichert |
| script | Maik Reichert (concept) |
| production |
Brigitte Kramer , Jörg Jeshel , Maik Reichert |
| music | Denis Jones |
| camera | Maik Reichert, additional camera: Florian Mag Jörg Jeshel |
| cut | Bettina Blickwede |
Photo: Ostkreuz is a documentary by Maik Reichert about the German-German photo agency " Ostkreuz ", which was founded in 1990 by artists from the former GDR. The cinema release in Germany was on April 16, 2015.
content
Today 18 photographers from East and West work for the photo agency founded in 1990 by artists from the former GDR, mainly in the field of documentary photography. You represent a humanistic worldview. Eight photographers are introduced in the film, including the co-founders Ute and Werner Mahler, whose pictures of GDR life can be seen in a retrospective in Hamburg's Deichtorhallen. In addition, Maurice Weiss is portrayed, who depicts politicians in their debates and votes in the Bundestag, while Julian Röder searches for his motives on the street between demonstrators. Like the Mahlers, Sibylle Bergemann and Harald Hauswald already took photos with passion during the GDR era. The passion of Annette Hauschild are wandering Roma and Linn Schröder thematize with their pictures above all their own body.
criticism
The film service described the film as a “cinematic anniversary greeting”, as little was reported about “the details of the existential crisis”. The Tagesspiegel judged that the film was "increasingly gaining the tone of a retrospective" because the "days are over". If the "GDR photographers" had to defend their photographic independence against censorship in the past, today they would primarily face financial constraints.
Web links
- Photo: Ostkreuz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photo: Ostkreuz at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for photo: Ostkreuz . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Photo: Ostkreuz. Film service , accessed January 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Deike Diening: External pressure and internal freedom. Der Tagesspiegel , December 1, 2015, accessed on January 4, 2016 .