Sylvia (1984)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Sylvia |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 24 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ernst Cantzler |
| script | Ernst Cantzler Rolf Liebmann |
| production | DEFA studio for documentaries |
| music | Pankow |
| camera | Thomas Plenert |
| cut | Maja Ulbrich |
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Sylvia is a documentary film by DEFA-Studios for Documentaries by Ernst Cantzler from 1984.
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Sylvia Erdmann is 26 years old, single, without a child, slightly disabled and works in the “Progress I” youth brigade in the Pankow section of the Berlin TV electronics plant . She comes to her 428th night shift and meets women who haven't looked for each other, but have found each other. With all the things they have in common, life means different things to them. You can express private problems here without difficulty, which is very important for everyone here.
The work is monotonous and stupid, but in most professions it is probably the case that everything is repeated over and over again. If Sylvia should explain to someone what she works, she couldn't because the other person has no idea. Your work requires a lot of sensitivity and incredible patience, but it is well paid for it. It assembles electronic components for measurement, control and regulation technology in a three-layer system . She would have liked to learn another profession, for example a nurse , but because of her disability, only a sedentary job was an option and so she became a watchmaker .
Sylvia is one of those people who always tries to be honest about her opinion. She also does this at brigade meetings , even if it goes against the foreman because he has treated a colleague unfairly. Despite small problems, she likes it in the company, she gets along well with her colleagues and her job is safe despite her disability. Only qualify they would not, as it has privately in her life still a lot before and fear of a possible loss; she wouldn't earn more money either.
Sylvia is asked by her colleagues to sing a song, but she doesn't want to be in front of the camera. She comes from a musical family, her father and an uncle played the double bass and she played the flute as a child , which she can no longer do today. Now she only sings at family celebrations or when a music group is looking for a good voice, even if the singer is one of the bigger women. For a professional career with a degree, she would also have to learn to play an instrument, which she cannot do. She also has a problem with the apparel industry, which obviously thinks there are only old fat women because there is nothing fashionable for fat young women to buy. If she couldn't sew a little herself, sometimes she would have nothing to wear, she says.
Much of Sylvia's biography is still open. She has no illusions, but she has hopes, dreams and wishes that have not yet been fulfilled.
Production and publication
Sylvia was shot as a black and white film by the Artistic Working Group (KAG) Kontakt under the working title Women in Berlin and had its first demonstrable performance on April 5, 1984 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin . The normal start-up in GDR cinemas took place on June 1, 1984.
The dramaturgy was in the hands of Irmgard Ritterbusch and the scenario comes from Ernst Cantzler.
The exterior shots were taken on Berliner Strasse near the Berlin-Pankow S-Bahn station .
Web links
- Sylvia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sylvia at filmportal.de
- Sylvia at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, March 24, 1984, p. 8