Greetings from the home front
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Greetings from the home front |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Hannelore Conradsen , Dieter Köster |
| script | Hannelore Conradsen, Dieter Köster |
| production | mbu |
| camera | Dieter Köster , Istvan Balogh |
| cut | Babette Rodin |
Greetings from the Home Front is a documentary by Hannelore Conradsen and Dieter Köster from 2006 . In the form of the contrasting coexistence, events, personal occurrences, work and private scenes are organically integrated into a whole and intertwined with one another.
action
The film shows Germany in the summer of 2006 from a subjective perspective: “The happiest people on earth! Are the boys often left alone or crushed in their adult corsets too early? The parents: an abdicated generation. Worn out, often invisible, switched off? Do they mean us ?! ” Psychologists describe happiness as a state of comforting self-forgetfulness. As in a warm bath, the self drifts in the flow of time, animated by its presence, unconcerned about what is to come. Conradsen and Köster track the matter with camera and sound in their personal area.
note
Production note (for the Carnival of Cultures sequence in Berlin) by Hannelore Conradsen and Dieter Köster :
“... The film alternates between typical personal behaviors and appearances, for example at the Carnival of Cultures in Berlin: First you can see the hustle and bustle of civil strollers on the open city street. The picture only shows this sector, the street lined with onlookers. Instructions can be heard via megaphone, faces can be seen concentrating on them. Withdrawal, the apparently disordered in a loose formation, even if (for some) in an unwilling attitude. Cheers and muffled rhythmic sounds approach the ear from the background. The first traffic policeman is advancing across the cleared middle of the street. He is followed by several uniformed colleagues who are calm, but precisely placed. Then slightly demolished personnel carriers drive into the picture (probably by throwing stones). They are followed by more senior senior ranks. The spectators at the roadside wait as if lined up in a row. Now the organizer's security staff in formation, dressed in fashionable orange. You wear a cord, so once again delimit the already cleared path of the move in fine locking. The mobile Zugspitze follows, a prettied up mini car that leads the folk dance group. Relaxed, strange and disordered - they dance neatly by. A dancer has a brief coughing fit. "