Giant Berlin
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Giant Berlin |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Leo de Laforgue |
| script | Leo de Laforgue |
| production | Leo de Laforgue |
| camera | Leo de Laforgue |
| cut | Leo de Laforgue |
| occupation | |
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Klaus Miedel : Narrator | |
Gigant Berlin - The world's most exciting city is a German experimental documentary by Leo de Laforgue from 1964.
Gigant Berlin is a color documentary with a running time of 85 minutes and was broadcast for the first time on television on the theme day “50 Years of Building the Wall” on August 13, 2011 on RBB TV .
action
The film shows everyday life in Berlin in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It presents a modern West Berlin after the reconstruction. Fittingly, it shows, among other things, the Hansaviertel , which was newly built in the 1950s .
The film documents several special events in Berlin's contemporary history; the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, John F. Kennedy's visit in 1963 and the demolition of some parts of the old Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church .
background
The recordings for the film were made between 1957 and 1963. Features of the film are in places the fast cuts, which sometimes turn the film into a frenzy of images. When Gigant Berlin was made, Leo de Laforgue took on many of the film's work steps himself.
The documentary was stored in the film archive in Berlin and was forgotten for decades. The documentary was first shown on television in 2011 and released on DVD that same year.
While de Laforgues Berlin film Symphony of a cosmopolitan city from 1941 still presents historic Berlin, twenty years later Gigant Berlin shows a Berlin that has changed its face to a modern metropolis that is divided and tries to separate itself from its traditions.
Leo de Laforgue offered the Federal Minister for All-German Issues and Vice Chancellor Erich Mende the “honorary protectorate” for his “full-length representation color film”. He justified this with the fact that "this color film creation is not only artistically attractive - in the opinion of all experts and critics - but also has global significance in political and propagandistic terms." expressive scenic processes ". He shot about 50,000 meters of Eastman-Color film of all the dramatic events: escape scenes including “a shooting in front of the barbed wire”, the tank affronts and the confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie, as well as aerial photos. Since the film in the judgment of the Press and Information Office of the State of Berlin by no means fulfilled the requirements of a "Berlin film", it advised against the honorary protectorate and the BMG did not react at all. The film evaluation agency in Wiesbaden (FBW) also had serious concerns, especially against the re-enactment of an escape attempt with a fatal outcome. In addition, she stated: “The superficiality of the pictures is far surpassed by that of the commentary” and refused to give a rating to the “Berlin picture sheet, in which some film recordings of current events are interspersed”.
Web links
- Giant Berlin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gigant Berlin rbb-online.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2004233 . See talk page for more information on the / speakers. The text was written by Matthias Walden . Source: https://www.rbb-online.de/fernsehen/programm/12_10_2016/18693264106.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bundesarchiv / Koblenz, B 137/13268, letter from De Laforgue to Mende, December 1, 1963.
- ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv / Wiesbaden, FBW holdings: Dept. 548, examination no. 10073
- ↑ All information according to Matthias Steinle: From the enemy image to the external image. The mutual representation of FRG and GDR in the documentary . CLOSE UP series, vol. 18, UVK, Konstanz 2003, pp. 207f.
