In continuity - protocol for memory
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | In continuity - protocol for memory |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Tetzlaff |
| script | Kurt Tetzlaff Hans-Dieter Rutsch |
| production | DEFA -Studio for Documentary Films GmbH |
| camera |
Jürgen Voigt Hans-Joachim Sommer Andreas Bergmann |
| cut | Monika Schäfer |
In transit - protocol for memory is a documentary film made by DEFA-Studios für Dokumentarfilme GmbH in 1990 .
action
For a year, director Kurt Tetzlaff observed the 18-year-old pastor's son Alexander Schulz, who moved from his parents' house in Brielow to Potsdam after the 10th grade to attend the Helmholtz high school. The planned film should show the story of a non-conformist youth in the GDR. Through the events that occurred in 1989, the filming, through the political events, became an exemplary document of the time of the turning point. The official announcements of the GDR governments stand in clear contrast to the openly expressed thoughts of Alexander. In his Abitur essay he refers to Mikhail Shatrow's famous perestroika play “Dictatorship of Conscience” from 1986 and comments: “Even Stalin could never have ruled like this if there hadn't been people who wanted to be ruled.” The play became a large part of his class rehearsed for a performance.
Alexander laments the state paternalism that shapes the life of the individual without it being possible to break out. In order to rule out the possibility of a prison sentence, which was to be expected in the event of a total refusal to do military service, he decided to go to the construction soldiers . When he and a few friends and his own banners take part in a mass rally against fascism, they are beaten up by the security forces and interrogated for 12 hours. During this time of upheaval, Alexander sympathized with the New Forum , which aimed to improve the GDR. But on March 17, 1990, one day before the Volkskammer election, his hopes were turned into resignation. He finds the “vision of an all-German fatherland” terrifying, since he had opted for an alternative to socialism and capitalism. In conclusion, he sums up: "We are selling ourselves for D-Mark, Mallorca and Marlboro".
production
The film was shot in black and white from March 1989 to March 1990 and had its premiere on October 6, 1990 at the Academy of Arts (Berlin). Official television reports from the current camera were displayed in color to counteract the individual state of mind. The shooting locations were in Potsdam and Brandenburg. The film has not yet been broadcast on television.
criticism
Margit Voss said in the Berliner Zeitung that the long-term observation that Kurt Tetzlaff attached to the high school graduate Alexander was a tense reflection of the political conditions changing from day to day.
Günter Sobe says in the Berliner Zeitung in an article about the “Dokfilm 90” festival in Neubrandenburg that the film about the high school graduate, whose positions have been followed over the past year, has what it takes to become a lasting document of the times.
The lexicon of international film writes about the film "The political development of the next few months makes the documentary an exciting testimony to a time in which hopes for the future are becoming reality, but also losing much of their utopian power due to social developments."
Web links
- Protocol for memory - in the passage in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- In transit - minutes for the memory at filmportal.de
- In passage - protocol for memory on DEFA foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 8, 1990
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 8, 1990
- ^ Berliner Zeitung of October 13, 1990
- ↑ In Passage - Protocol for Memory. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .