Märkische Heide, Brandenburg sand (film)

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Movie
Original title Märkische Heide, Brandenburg sand
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1990
length 53 minutes
Rod
Director Volker Koepp
script Volker Koepp
production DEFA , KAG document
music Mario Peters
camera Thomas Plenert
cut Yvonne Loquens

Märkische Heide, märkischer Sand , is a documentary film made by the DEFA studio for documentaries by Volker Koepp in 1990 .

action

The film begins with a conversation between two workers from the state-owned brick factory in Zehdenick . In the spring of 1988 you are in a restaurant and are talking about glasnost and the magazine Sputnik , which is no longer freely available at the newspaper kiosk. Other information about the changes in the Soviet Union are difficult to obtain, so you get the book perestroika of Mikhail Gorbachev in the GDR , however already not to buy in bookstores, in the Federal Republic. These recordings are already being shot for the first part of the Märkische Trilogy and are the reason why the film Märkische Bricks is not allowed to appear for the time being. After cutting out this conversation, the film can be shown in cinemas with a delay of over a year.

The second part begins again at the pedestrian bridge over the Havel in Zehdenick, it is November 1989. In the same restaurant, the workers from the brickworks met again over a beer. The mood is upset and the anger against the comrades of the SED cannot be ignored. There are demonstrations in the streets for changes in the GDR and meetings on the same topic are held in the church. Here, too, the demand for the reconstruction of the Havel Bridge in its former appearance is a matter of concern, which is supported by long-lasting, strong applause.

In February 1990, filming takes place again. Now it's about the elections for the People's Chamber and the associated election campaign of the parties. To this end, some citizens are asked who provide information sparingly or in detail about their opinion.

In Grüneberg , next to Zehdenick another important place in the Gransee district , there is the Grüneberger spirits factory and distillery . After a tour of the company, the camera comes to a table where several women hand pack the bottles into cardboard boxes. Most of these workers are not yet sure which party they will vote for. But instead they sing the Brandenburg anthem Märkische Heide, Brandenburg sand . Afterwards, however, they still talk about the uncertainties about the future of their company and the fear of their own future, as they do not receive any information from the management.

Back at the Zehdenick brickworks, the three workers from the first part of the trilogy are still stacking the finished bricks in the carts. They too are unsure about the future of their business and thus also their own future. As in Grüneberg, the management remains silent here too. Two of them do not yet know which party they will vote for, the third has decided in favor of the New Forum .

A West Berlin couple who took a spontaneous trip to Zehdenick by car on March 18th, election day, thought the place was just great and funny.

production

Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand is the second part of the Märkische Trilogy that Volker Koepp shot about the small town of Zehdenick in the Brandenburg region.

The premiere took place on October 10, 1990 at the 39th Mannheim International Film Week . The regular screenings in the cinemas began on November 4, 1990 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin .

criticism

The Lexicon of International Films states that the atmospheric 35 mm black-and-white photography in particular has produced a document that is as poetic and relaxed as it is unadorned and critical.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Märkische Heide, Brandenburg Sand. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 11, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used