Laundresses (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Laundresses |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 23 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jürgen Böttcher |
| script |
Günter Wünsche Jürgen Böttcher |
| production | DEFA , KAG profile |
| camera | Werner Kohlert |
| cut | Charlotte Beck |
| occupation | |
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Laundresses is a documentary from DEFA Studios for Documentary Films by Jürgen Böttcher from 1972 .
action
This film shows young women who, in 1972, were trained as textile cleaning specialists within two or three years at the Berlin laundry cleaning company REWATEX (“cleans and washes textiles” from 17 to 18 thousand customers). The training workshop is located in the Heinersdorf youth facility and is a training facility for 180 apprentices , some of whom are accompanied by a camera and microphone, with drawing equipment, wash house, mangle and expedition . They answer professional and private questions openly and without hesitation.
None of the apprentices had the desire to learn this trade. They are all only here because the apprenticeships were assigned to the schools and there were no vacancies for the desired occupation. In the Schneeglöckchenstrasse employment office, REWATEX was very actively promoted, sometimes with promises that were flowery. The training instructors now have the task, in addition to the technical education, to arouse interest in the profession. Of all the apprenticeships, the laundry is the most popular. Here you also have a little break in between, which is not possible with the other positions. Although the laundresses are urgently needed in production after their apprenticeship, some do not want to stay in the company and look for other work.
Production and publication
Peter Voigt wrote the commentary and the dramaturgy was in the hands of Günter Wünsche .
The verifiably first performance of the black and white film, shot under the working title REWATEX, took place on October 7, 1972 in the Berlin OTL (Oranienburger Tor Lichtspiele) cinema as part of the program of the film art theater Studiokino Camera . The first broadcast on the first program of the GDR television took place on January 28, 1973.
criticism
Günter Sobe writes about the film in the Berliner Zeitung :
"In direct confrontation with the working person, Böttcher tries again to find the most exact answers possible about contemporaries and thus to give certain appropriate answers about contemporary issues."
Manfred Meier says about the film in his article about the International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week for Cinema and TV in the New Age :
"Nothing is glossed over here, and the protagonists are no teasing, cheerful laundresses of old operetta glory, but young girls of today who have their feet firmly on the ground, cheerful, in love, with their longings and problems."
Rolf Richter writes in the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland about the film Love is loud and quiet and states:
“The supporting film was the real thing ... The director understands the art of referring to the whole with hints, of capturing a person in a banter at the workplace. All of a sudden you got hooked and understood the originality of a person. You can feel the filmmakers' sympathy for the girls, the respect for the individuality of each of them "
Awards
- 1973: VIII. Moscow International Film Festival : Honorary diploma of the short film jury
Web links
- Washerwomen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Washerwomen at filmportal.de
- Laundresses at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 5, 1972, p. 6
- ↑ Neue Zeit of January 20, 1973, p. 11
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of November 22, 1972, p. 6
- ↑ Neue Zeit of November 23, 1972, p. 4
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from December 12, 1972, p. 4