Wittstock III
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| Original title | Wittstock III | ||
| Country of production | GDR | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 1978 | ||
| length | 32 minutes | ||
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| Director | Volker Koepp | ||
| script |
Wolfgang Geier Volker Koepp |
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| production | DEFA studio for documentaries | ||
| music | Rainer Bohm | ||
| camera | Christian Lehmann | ||
| cut | Barbara Masanetz-Mechelk | ||
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Wittstock III is a documentary film of the DEFA studios for documentary films by Volker Koepp from the year 1978 .
action
Edith lives with her mother in Pritzwalk and takes the bus to and from work every day. At home she tells in front of the camera how exhausting the night shift is and how she spends the time between shifts. Since she's been doing this for seven years, she's got used to it. Her mother remembers that she never had to buy so-called girls' toys for Edith. She didn't play with it, she preferred something mechanical that she knew from her two brothers. Only sometimes regrets the mother that she Edith to the top jersey recite operation (OTB) has apprenticed, above all when it comes full anger of the layer. Now the film looks back and tells, with excerpts from the films Girls in Wittstock and Again in Wittstock , what happened again since January 1974 when Edith was 19 years old at the time.
It's December 1977 now, the company has grown even bigger, Edith is again the band leader, which she once strictly rejected and has started a master’s degree. A lot has changed for her, the time when she wanted to leave the company is over, now she enjoys working here again. She has recognized that there are problems in every company, still gives her opinion when it needs to be said and has certainly already achieved a lot. But, even in the opinion of her colleagues, no major changes have occurred. But she has hopes for the future, because the new plant area manager Waltraud has been with the company for several months. Stupsi, too, is of the opinion that things have changed a bit since then, even if this alone cannot change everything that has come into the management level, which Waltraut also confirms in a conversation.
Edith learns that she should take over another tape overnight and the trouble is back. Edith doesn't want to go there because she has just got a grip on the youth band and now she's supposed to go to one with many older colleagues. She is afraid that she will not be accepted as a young woman. Now comes to Comrade Edith, the responsible party secretary of the SED , who wants to make it clear to her that only she is in a position to whip up the other bond. Waltraud had already spoken to her that she had developed well and that she could be trusted to fulfill this task. Although she is still angry, Edith sees it, however, to take over the other band as director, even if she is not sure that she will have as much fun here as she does now.
January 1978, Edith took over the new belt. The biggest problem is getting the colleagues under one roof, now everyone is on their own, there is still a lot to do. Edith's greatest wish for the future is that if the film team comes back, the current problems of the company should be overcome. At some point that has to change, she says. It is not yet clear to her whether she will stay, but her master craftsman training will end for the time being.
Production and publication
Wittstock III was shot as a black and white film under the working title Young Workers III by the artistic working group "document" . It had its premiere on September 1, 1978.
The dramaturgy was in the hands of Wolfgang Geier.
This film is the third part of a seven-part long-term documentary that was not originally planned as such.
criticism
In the report, Peter Berger wrote about his impressions from the 1st National Documentary Film Festival in Neubrandenburg in New Germany
“In Volker Koepp's 'Wittstock III', the psyche of a young worker was revealed in very personal expressions, who resolved to change jobs because she did not leave some difficulties in the company indifferent, and for the same reason they did so in hers Space remains. "
Web links
- Wittstock III in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wittstock III at filmportal.de
- Wittstock III at the DEFA Foundation
- Wittstock III at the Federal Agency for Civic Education
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany of October 17, 1978, p. 4