Furnace maker (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Furnace maker |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 15 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jürgen Böttcher |
| script | Jürgen Böttcher |
| production | DEFA |
| camera |
Hans Dumke Helmut Gerstmann Gerhard Münch Walter Roßkopf Christian Lehmann |
| cut | Charlotte Beck |
Ofenbauer is a documentary film of the DEFA Studios for newsreels and documentaries from Jürgen Böttcher from the year 1962 .
action
There are six blast furnaces in the Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost an der Oder . Each of them lasts seven years, then it's burned out and needs to be replaced. So far, the change has taken 80 days, with a new technology there should only be 40 days of production downtime. A new blast furnace will be built next to the old one and only after its completion can the old one be completely demolished, except for the scaffolding. The new one weighs almost 2000 tons and is 56 meters high and is pulled 18 meters on rollers to the correct location with several steel cables.
The film begins with the last instructions before starting work. Everyone is focused and knows what to do. The action was prepared for 22 days. This also included the construction of a girder bridge over which the transport should take place. Then the words came to everyone: “Master Klaus is now in command. His orders are to be obeyed! ”In the following minutes, shot by five cameramen, you see the men at work: tense faces, examining hands, the sound of screeching winds and steel cables taut to the point of breaking. If you have the problem that a pipe is in the way and needs to be removed, everything will be fine. The goal is reached after three hours.
Production and publication
The world premiere of the black and white film took place on November 13th on the occasion of the 5th International Documentary and Short Film Week in Leipzig . The regular screenings in the cinemas began on December 28, 1962. The first broadcast on German television took place on January 6, 1963.
criticism
An ADN report in the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland about the film reads:
“The dramatic atmosphere of the implementation of a blast furnace in the EKO is reproduced here with gripping immediacy . The camera, reading the faces, impressively shows the strong inner involvement of the people. "
Günter Sobe writes about the film in the Berliner Zeitung :
“It impresses with its immediacy, with the direct presence of the camera and the tension on the workers' faces. A film that gives the documentary what the documentary is: real life. "
Awards
- 1962: 5th International Documentary and Short Film Week Leipzig : Silver Dove for the national program of the GDR with emphasis on the films Ofenbauer and After a year
Web links
- Ofenbauer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ofenbauer at filmportal.de
- Furnace maker at the DEFA foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany of October 25, 1962, p. 4
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of November 14, 1962, p. 6
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of November 19, 1962, p. 1