Kehraus (film trilogy)
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Original title | Sweep |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1990 |
length | 30 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 0 |
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Director | Gerd Kroske |
script | Gerd Kroske |
production |
Katrin Schlösser Peter Planitzer |
music | Thorsten Ratheischak |
camera | Sebastian Richter |
cut | Angelika Arnold |
occupation | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 .
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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. "
"The document of negatively changed life, the three protagonists of which get by with odd jobs and have problems with alcohol."
"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."
Awards
- 1990: 33rd Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival - special award from the international jury for Kehraus
- 1999: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival - Runner Up Prize for Kehrein, Kehraus
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Kehraus . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 006 K).
- Jump up , again. The film.
- ↑ Kehrein, kehraus in the lexicon of international film
- ^ Kehraus, again in the Lexicon of International Films
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 .