Gundermann (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Gundermann |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 127 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
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| Director | Andreas Dresen |
| script | Laila Stieler |
| production |
Christoph Friedel , Claudia Steffen |
| music | Gerhard Gundermann |
| camera | Andreas Höfer |
| cut | Jörg Hauschild |
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Gundermann is a biographical film and at the same time a music film by Andreas Dresen from 2018 about the songwriter Gerhard Gundermann . Laila Stieler wrote the script and Alexander Scheer played the leading role. The film was released in German cinemas on August 23, 2018. At the German Film Prize 2019 , Gundermann was the most successful competition entry with six awards (including Best Feature Film, Best Director and Best Actor).
action
Starting in 1992, the film shows selected episodes from the life of the songwriter and excavator driver, including the fact that Gundermann's work as an unofficial employee of the State Security became known . Based on this, flashbacks show how he got involved politically in the GDR and how he got together with his wife Conny. He gains inspiration for his songs while he is sitting in the driver's cab of a bucket wheel excavator and mining lignite in the Spreetal opencast mine near the city of Hoyerswerda . He records spontaneous linguistic text ideas for songs with an analog dictation machine. His life and his environment are shaped by contradictions: his work tears up the earth, at the same time he describes and sings about the beauties of nature. As a staunch communist, his directness and idiosyncrasy reached social limits. Through his work for the State Security, he hopes to be able to achieve improvements in occupational safety and working conditions, and only after the fall of the Wall realized how much he could have harmed other people. At the same time, he learns that he was also observed by friends for the State Security himself. His father broke off contact with him because he held his son responsible for his own misconduct. When Gundermann becomes a father himself, his wife finds it difficult to accept that he continues to invest so much time in his music and work.
production
Laila Stieler started working on and preparing the script for the film in 2006. Conny Gundermann, the songwriter's widow, helped create the film. The music - 15 tracks produced by Jens Quandt - is performed by Gisbert zu Knyphausen's band , consisting of Gunnar Ennen (guitars, keyboard instruments), Jens Fricke (guitars), Frenzy Suhr (bass), Sebastian Deufel (drums, grand pianos) and as Guest was played by saxophonist Andreas Wieczorek (from the original line-up of Die Seilschaft ) and sung by the main actor Alexander Scheer .
The filming locations included the Nochten opencast mine and its daytime facilities in Mühlrose in the Lausitz lignite mining district , almost 20 kilometers east of Gundermann's former workplace. Some scenes were shot in Gelsenkirchen-Hassel .
reception
“Biographical film about the short and intense life of the excavator driver and songwriter Gerhard 'Gundi' Gundermann (1955–1998), which in its cinematic-musical form conveys the character complexity of the artist as well as the contradictions of life in the GDR. The achronological, sometimes associative dramaturgy does not want to judge the stubborn free spirit, but rather allows itself to be touched by its inner conflict. An approach to a multi-layered person in a lost country, developed from everyday observations and congenially interpreted in the main role. "
“Gundermann was an artist as original as it was contradictory. The staunch socialist was kicked out of the party, spied for the Stasi and was himself monitored. Andreas Dresen's film 'Gundermann' does not place the rock poet on a pedestal, but exposes him to his past. The sensitive film doesn't gloss over anything, but works out very precisely and differentiated how attitudes arise. A clever, sincere and moving music film about a lived life with all its ideals, entanglements, disappointments. It is time for such films about the GDR. "
Awards
- 2018: Gilde Film Award - Best Film (national)
- 2018: Günter Rohrbach Film Award - Actor Award for Alexander Scheer
- 2018: Bavarian Film Award for Alexander Scheer as best leading actor
- 2019: German Film Award 2019 in six categories: Best Feature Film, Best Director (Andreas Dresen), Best Screenplay (Laila Stieler), Best Actor (Alexander Scheer), Best Production Design (Susanne Hopf), Best Costume Design (Sabine Greunig). Further nominations for Best Female Supporting Role (Eva Weißenborn), Best Cinematography / Image Creation (Andreas Höfer), Best Editing (Jörg Hauschild), Best Make-up Image (Grit Kosse, Uta Spikermann).
- 2019: German Acting Award 2019 - Award in the category of actress in a supporting role ( Eva Weißenborn )
CD and literature
The songs sung by Alexander Scheer in the film have been released with two bonus tracks ( men and women as well as wedding song ) on Buschfunk on a CD entitled Gundermann - the music for the film .
The book Gundermann - I want something from every day that I won't forget ... was published by Ch. Links Verlag at Ch. Links Verlag ( ISBN 978-3-96289-011-7 ). It contains letters, documents, interviews and memories from and with participants in the film and Gundermann's companions, as well as photos from the film.
In the Poesiealbum series , booklet 338 by Gerhard Gundermann with the lyrics and poems of Gundermann was published before the film premiere, which was later expanded due to the mention in the credits and adapted to the feature film content.
Web links
- Gundermann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
- Report in the Tagesspiegel from August 23, 2018
- Film about East German singer Gundermann: Because of principled idiosyncrasy , FAZ from August 28, 2018
- Conny Gundermann: "Andreas Dresen doesn't hurt Gundi, he loves him too" , conversation about the start of the film Gundermann , mdr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Gundermann . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 180376 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for Gundermann . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Twelve noon. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Snowland Music Production website
- ↑ Gunnar Ennen plays music for a movie. Neue Westfälische, September 29, 2018.
- ^ Gundermann - The music for the film , at Buschfunk .
- ^ Gundermann - Die Musik zum Film , at MusicBrainz .
- ↑ Gerhard Gundermann back in his territory: Andreas Dresen is shooting a feature film in the LEAG opencast mine in Nochten. Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG , November 17, 2017, accessed on November 27, 2017 .
- ^ Enrico Kliemann: Gundermann film. In: News from Mühlrose. November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .
- ↑ In Hassel is shot for a movie (WAZ). October 30, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Film service entry. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
- ^ Film review by Knut Elstermann. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Program cinema operators award GUNDERMANN as the best film . Article dated September 20, 2018, accessed September 29, 2018.
- ↑ Film drama "In den Gänge" wins Günter Rohrbach Film Prize ( memento of the original from November 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article dated November 2, 2018, accessed November 3, 2018.
- ↑ 3sat's summary of the 2018 award winners, accessed on January 28, 2019
- ↑ Acting award for Valerie Pachner and Rainer Bock. In: Wetterauer Zeitung . September 13, 2019, accessed September 13, 2019 .
- ↑ https://konsum.buschfunk.com/soundtrack-gundermann-der-film.html , accessed on February 9, 2019
- ↑ http://www.poesiealbum.info/hefte/p338.html
