Namibia Generation X
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Namibia Generation X |
| Country of production | Namibia , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thorsten Schütte |
| production | Thorsten Schütte |
| camera | Thorsten Schütte |
| cut | Arne Wanner |
Namibia Generation X (also Sheila and Natasha - Living and Learning in Namibia ) is a documentary film by the German director Thorsten Schütte from 2005 . He was first under the small TV game of the ZDF broadcast.
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The documentary accompanies five students from the final year of the German Higher Private School Windhoek (DHPS) for three years. 15 years after the end of apartheid , a senior class made up of white, colored and black students is preparing for their Abitur . The first ethnically mixed class is taught by Ms. Gretschel. The documentary focuses on five of her students.
Natasha and Mirko are black and white lovers who also come from different backgrounds. Natasha comes from a poor family in the poor settlement Katutura and lives in a school home, while Mirko lives in a wealthy settlement outside Windhoek . Sheila is from Angola . The refugee girl also comes from a poor background and threatens to fail at school. Tatum, as a colored person between the two societies, fights for her identity while Kai-Uwe is a native Namibian with German roots. These five unequal characters are all looking for identity and trying to gain a foothold in a country torn by racism and poverty.
History of origin
Documentary filmmaker Thorsten Schütte repeatedly traveled to the former colony of German South West Africa in Namibia over a period of three years . There he lived in the same school home as some of his protagonists. He accompanied them with his camera and filmed a total of 120 hours of material, which was then cut into 90 minutes of film. The film dispenses with both comments and longer interview material and rather shows scenes from the everyday life of the students.
The film was shown at several film festivals and was a small success in Namibia. The collaboration resulted in Schütte's follow-up project being the film Land Matters , a documentary about land reform in Namibia.
Web links
- Namibia Generation X in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Namibia Generation X in the online film database
- The little television game - Namibia Generation X ( Memento from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Arne Wanner - A German private school in Africa. Arne Wanner, accessed August 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Chriszelda Muenjo & Clever Mapaure: The Land Matters Report . ( landmatters.de [PDF]).