Kehraus (film trilogy)

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Movie
Original title Sweep
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1990
length 30 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Gerd Kroske
script Gerd Kroske
production Katrin Schlösser
Peter Planitzer
music Thorsten Ratheischak
camera Sebastian Richter
cut Angelika Arnold
occupation
  • Gabi Koch
  • Stefan silk
  • Henry Rande
  • Arnolf Hempel
  • Gerd Thiersch
Movie
Original title Kehrein, kehraus
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1997
length 70 minutes
Rod
Director Gerd Kroske
script Gerd Kroske
Manuela Martinson
production Gerd Kroske
music Todenhöfer & Mette
camera Dieter Chill
cut Karin Schöning
occupation
  • Stefan silk
  • Gabi Koch
  • Henry Radney
  • Gerd Thiersch
  • Marlen Dietze
  • Rainer König
  • Marion Richter
Movie
Original title Goodbye, again
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Gerd Kroske
script Gerd Kroske
Manuela Martinson
production Gerd Kroske
music Klaus Janek
camera Dieter Chill
cut Karin Schöning
occupation
  • Gabriele Koch
  • Marion Richter
  • Marlen Dietze (†)
  • Stefan Silk (†)
  • Caterina Koch
  • Ingo Koch
  • Peggy Ranfeld
  • Dieter Tinibel
  • Annelies Herbert
  • Werner Hartkopf

Kehraus is a documentary film trilogy by Gerd Kroske that follows the lives of Leipzig street cleaners between 1989 and 2006 in a long-term observation .

content

The first film Kehraus was made in March 1990 in black and white and was produced by the DEFA studio for documentary films, Kinobox group. Street sweepers from the Leipzig city cleaning service clear away what nobody needs anymore. Among other things, they remove the rubbish that remains after a Helmut Kohl election campaign event shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The future looks promising, but no one knows what it will really bring. The three street sweepers Gabi, Henry and Stefan, who do odd jobs in the city cleaning department, have résumés between the children's home and jail. The film premiered on November 4, 1990, and it was released in German theaters on April 26, 1991.

The second film Kehrein, Kehraus was shot in October 1996. At this point all three are no longer working as street sweepers. You now only move back and forth between apartment, pub and social welfare office. The premiere of the second film was on May 7, 1997, the first television broadcast on October 5, 1997 on 3sat .

In the third film Kehraus, again from 2006, after another ten years Stefan and Marlen are no longer alive. The others "live like that". The last film premiered on November 3, 2006 in Leipzig, and it was released in theaters on May 8, 2008.

Gerd Kroske himself describes the trilogy as “an 'unintentional' - never actually planned - long-term observation […], because I wished for a happy ending with every film. Reality has produced this material in 16 years. ”( Gerd Kroske :) The Kehraus trilogy appeared in its entirety for the first time in 2013 on absolutmedien in the DVD box Time states .

Reviews

“The 'Kehraus' trilogy is free of any confusion despite the incredibly touching insights into unfamiliar disappointments and living rooms. It shows how small and gray unemployment can make people. But also with what effort, what dignity and self-criticism Kroske's protagonists resist the threatening neglect and loneliness. "

- Birgit Glombitza : Catalog for the film series Germany, revisited II.

"The document of negatively changed life, the three protagonists of which get by with odd jobs and have problems with alcohol."

- Lexicon of the international film about Kehrein, kehraus

"An intense, bitter film about social coldness and lack of opportunity, which deals with three people whose (emotional) distress has written itself on their faces."

- Lexicon of the international film about sweets, again

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Kehraus . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 006 K).
  2. Jump up , again. The film.
  3. ↑ Kehrein, kehraus in the lexicon of international filmTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  4. ^ Kehraus, again in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used

literature

  • Birgit Glombitza: Germany, revisited II. (Catalog for the film series of the same name in the municipal Metropolis Kino , September 2007), Kinemathek Hamburg e. V., Hamburg 2007.
  • Dietmar Kammerer: Destiny Management. Interview with Gerd Kroske. In: The daily newspaper of May 16, 2008.

DVD release

Gerd Kroske Time Conditions Films 1990–2012. ISBN 978-3-89848-397-1 .

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