Greetings from Libya or green is a beautiful color
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| Original title | Greetings from Libya or green is a beautiful color |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 22 minutes |
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| Director | Winfried Young |
| script | Winfried Young |
| production | DEFA studio for documentaries |
| camera | Hans-Eberhard Leupold |
| cut | Barbara Young |
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Greetings from Libya or Green is a Beautiful Color is a documentary film by the DEFA Studio for Documentaries by Winfried Junge from 1989 .
action
Winfrid Junge receives a postcard from Libya , the sender of which is the reason to go to visit him. On arrival, a whole collective of Germans from the GDR who work in the GSLAVJ, the Great Socialist Libyan-Arab People's Jamahirija, and Jamahirija means something like "State of all" for a group photo. They are from the combine progress agricultural machinery and are building a grain silo here . In the middle of this group is Dieter Finger, who wrote the card and who many from the long-term documentary The Children of Golzowknow. The film is not supposed to report about him, but about the country and why this silo is being built.
In 1989, about 4 million people lived in Libya and the country was 16 times larger than the GDR. The film team drives to an area in which agriculture has been practiced for 7,000 years. When asked where the water comes from, the farmers answer that it is sometimes abundant and point to a dam , a second dam has already shown its usefulness, which is proven by a photograph. Every drop of liquid is used here, in this land between desert and sea. The journey continues to a modern city that until recently only had huts without sewers . If the water came before the dams were built, half the city was swept into the lake with it, but the problems no longer exist today. The Koran is the law of society and there is also a new mosque , as well as a newly built agricultural school within sight of the silo. Education for all is the motto today and that also applies to women. Contrary to expectations, the film team meets little veiled people here . They are invited to attend classes in a class and choose one in which there are a particularly large number of girls; the subject is called meteorology . It is also normal for girls to go to the same class as boys. After the class, the film people are invited to the family, from which two of the students come.
Once in the family, the father first introduces them. Parents talk about their children and the modern appearance of their daughters. Less than a few years ago, the young women weren't even allowed to show themselves to a stranger. Then the family's animal husbandry is shown, followed by an industrial chicken husbandry in Libya, as is common in many modern countries and which may be the workplace of the girls in the future after completing their studies. Driving a tractor has also become normal for the girls and their parents to fetch water and use it to irrigate the fields. The family's arable land is 5 hectares and once the water issue has been finally resolved, this area, together with the areas of the other farmers in the area, will be enough to fill the silo once.
Production and publication
Greetings from Libya or Green is a beautiful color was filmed under the working titles Libya or Green is a beautiful color and Libya by DEFA, KAG document in cooperation with the film organization of the Great Socialist Libyan Arab People's Jamahiriya on ORWO-Color .
The release of the film in the GDR cinemas took place on June 23, 1989. It was broadcast on the television of the GDR on August 30, 1989 in the second program.
Web links
- Greetings from Libya or green is a nice color at filmportal.de
- Greetings from Libya or green is a nice color on DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, August 30, 1989, p. 8