Last year Titanic
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Last year Titanic |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andreas Voigt |
| script |
Sebastian Richter Andreas Voigt |
| production | DEFA -Studio for Documentary Films GmbH |
| camera | Sebastian Richter |
| cut | Angela Wendt |
Last year Titanic is a documentary made by DEFA Studio für Dokumentarfilme GmbH in 1991 .
action
Last year Titanic is a film about fates in Leipzig , shot from December 1989 to December 1990.
Wolfgang, the buddy from the foundry, was imprisoned twice in the 1960s for “attempting to escape from the republic” . He wants to go to the West quickly because he would earn 3,000 Westmarks there instead of 1,000 Ostmarks . He probably already has a job and an apartment in Mainz . A year later, he still hasn't left, but has now switched to short-time work.
Sylvia has her last day at work in a restaurant near the foundry. She closes her pub, her husband already has a job in Bavaria. To say goodbye, several Mozambican workers from the gray foundry came to play and sing songs from their homeland. For some German attendees, this is the reason to express themselves racistically. An elderly unskilled worker says about his future: "If the shit closes here, I'll be out forever."
Renate, a former journalist for the Leipziger Volkszeitung , expresses herself much more profoundly about her ideological aberrations, compulsions and repression syndromes, about experienced Stasi reprisals, guilt and responsibility. Objectively, she describes the typical scenario of seduction, rape, devotion, the abuse of honorable feelings and ideals and the existential crises. Renate's descriptions are among the most haunting scenes in the film.
The fourteen-year-old student Isabel is enthusiastic about the political armor Gregor Gysi and sees her future in giving up her gothic look with a heavy heart in order to try a rise in civil life. She spends her time with her peers in the demolition houses in Leipzig, since other contact points for the young people are no longer available.
John remains radical, a redskin with a bald head and combat suit. Only street fighting can help against the hated fascists. He also looks after a disabled pensioner from the neighborhood. In the occupied apartment of an unoccupied house, he listens to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in quiet hours .
And a People's Police major confidently demands longer batons and more stable protective shields for the crisis-ridden future , since the GDR police equipment is completely out of date. A first police car from the west has already arrived, which he proudly demonstrates.
production
This film by Andreas Voigt is the continuation of the documentary Leipzig in autumn . It was shot completely in black and white , only the last scene in color. The premiere took place on February 23, 1991 at the International Film Festival in Berlin as part of the International Forum for Young Films.
criticism
Karsten Klemm wrote in the Berliner Zeitung : “The long-term observations are an impressive document of the times, pure truths about everyday dreariness. A film made up of a hundred shades of gray. It was shot in black and white without glossy colors: reduced to the essentials. At the end, as at the beginning, there is the Leipzig train station , this time in color. The trip goes on. Just a look back. "
Awards
- 1991: German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) : Predicate: particularly valuable
- 1992: Adolf Grimme Prize 1992 with bronze (for the director)
Web links
- Last year the Titanic in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Last year Titanic at filmportal.de
- Last year Titanic on DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 21, 1991