Local history (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Local lore |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Susanne Müller , Andreas Coerper |
| script | Andreas Coerper |
| production | Susanne Müller |
| music | Achim Treu |
| camera | Andreas Coerper |
| cut | Tim Boehme |
| occupation | |
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Heimatkunde is a German satirical documentary from 2008 . 18 years after reunification, the film accompanies Martin Sonneborn on his six-week, 250-kilometer hike along the city limits of Berlin. Heimatkunde was created as a co-production between SMAC GbR and RBB . The production was funded by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg . The project started as a video blog on Spiegel Online .
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18 years after reunification , the satirist Martin Sonneborn embarks on a journey through the bacon belt of Berlin . Along the former border he meets former East and West Germans and explores the existing division in people's minds.
Martin Sonneborn sets off on the Berlin side of the Glienicke Bridge . He was the first to swim across the Havel from west to east in order to get to the starting point of the circumnavigation of Berlin, typically counter-clockwise. First, he meets an East German nudist who is sunbathing on a dilapidated former railway bridge over the Teltow Canal and gives him an informal interview. In the new housing estate in Großbeeren , he went looking for an East German family who would live here among 380 West Germans, but without success. In Stahnsdorf , "where there are four times as many dog toilets as there are fascism monuments", he witnessed the inauguration of the newly designed town center with the aforementioned dog toilets.
After visiting an allotment garden colony in Bohnsdorf , he meets two fourteen-year-old, smoking, fat friends with identical clothes in Schönefeld who explain to him about the GDR and the FRG and the wasteland of the place. It turns out that their knowledge of the GDR leaves a lot to be desired. On his further way he climbs the 102.2 meter high Kienberg . In a prefabricated housing estate in Marzahn , a resident says that when you move you can take the cut-to-size carpeting with you, as the apartments are all identical. In the Karow wagon village , in the ruins of an old pig LPG, he encounters an idyll with an outhouse and, a little later, a dilapidated Stasi rest home, where Erich Mielke is said to have danced in May 1st. In Hohen Neuendorf he visits the sky pagoda . At the gas station, he is clearly recognized as "Wessi" because he asks one of the proud car owners to hold the sausage for a moment.
After viewing the listed chain prints of the first T-34 , which reached Berlin's urban area in 1945, Sonneborn arrives at the disabled people's settlement built in 1938 . In Hennigsdorf , on the fenced-in area of the dormitory for asylum seekers, he meets a Palestinian who has lived there for 11 years. Without papers he cannot work, marry or return to Palestine. When he later reached Falkensee , he noticed the slurry tankers emptying the many septic tanks that were still in place in the area . People dream of traffic circles and a marina. After passing the dilapidated Charlottenburg cemetery, he visits a tree nursery. There a gardener reports that he was driven away from the construction of an expressway in Munich in 1997 and moved here with 750,000 plants. A little later he meets a follower of Jeshua who only reveals his name after consulting his god.
When Sonneborn passes a Chinese restaurant, in front of which the owner is assembling a toy ship from China, he offers to help. Shortly afterwards, he passed the ruins of the mountain in Potsdam, which symbolized the desolate state of Germany. In his opinion, the so-called Chinese tea house reminds tourists from China more of a Mongolian tent. The conclusion is the Sanssouci Palace .
criticism
“In its classically brittle simplicity, in its sober reduction to pure observation and flagrant chance encounters, it is the opposite of the 'Baader-Meinhof complex'. Instead of Eichinger's hectic, activist BoomBangBoom, Sonneborn sounds like Lalelu, only the man in the moon is watching. "
“Sonneborn's film is funny, but it doesn't tell a funny story. Why build a wall when the west is rusting and the east is rotting and everything is the same. "
“The almost one and a half hours of local history are perfectly shaped, beyond any doubt and could go on forever; simple: a contemporary document could not be more accurate and unpretentious. "
“Of course, you can tell by the nose that Sonneborn has a head start in reflection, which he usually enjoys over his interlocutors. But the role of the funny wanderer is at least an attempt not to rise above the people he meets. "
"A really excellent, recommendable inventory of the unified Germany, sometimes hysterically funny, sometimes shameful to hit the forehead, but always with a wink."
"A humorous as well as cunning documentary film that brings the unknown to light in the apparently familiar and sharpens the senses for East-West German sensitivities and contradictions."
Web links
- Official website
- Local studies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Local customer as a video blog on Spiegel Online
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Reinhard Mohr : Hunter of the lying unit. Cinema satire "Heimatkunde". In: Spiegel Online . October 2, 2008, accessed April 22, 2011 .
- ^ Synopsis . May 5, 2010. Retrieved June 27, 2014.
- ↑ Bananas for everyone . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 2008, p. 180 .
- ↑ Jakob Stählin : Status quo vadis. In: Editing (film magazine) . Mesccugge Verlag, accessed April 22, 2011 .
- ↑ Anke Westphal: May I take a bath? In: Berliner Zeitung , October 2, 2008
- ↑ Julian Reischl : Critique. In: moviemaze.de. Markus Ostertag IT-Solutions GmbH, accessed on April 22, 2011 .
- ↑ Local history. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed April 22, 2011 .