german documentaries 2012 (pdf - 7 mb)

it takes time
by Gabi Heleen Bollinger ARTS | ORAL-HISTORY | HUMAN RIGHTS | NS-POLITICS | WAR&PEACE
In 1937 the Nazis used one of his early sculptures for the catalogue cover of their propaganda exhibition
‘Degenerate Art’. Otto Freundlich, a German sculptor, wanted to build streets of sculptures running
through Europe symbolizing his Utopian vision of a World Society. The Nazis murdered him in
1943. His Idea is still alive.
Leo Kornbrust took on this legacy and, together with several colleagues, has worked for the last forty
years on the ‘Road of Peace’ project: a homage to Otto Freundlich. Kornbrust searches for clues to
Freundlich’s destiny, meeting people who sheltered him from the Nazis. He unearths how Otto
Freundlich was betrayed, and where his life was terminated. A lost trail is rediscovered and, one after
another, sculptures are made for the 'Road of Peace'. Slowly an idea grows.
German title: das geht nur langsam
Festivals: Max Ophüls Preis Festival, Saarbrücken,
Awards: New York International Independent Film & Video Festival / Best Directorial Debut of a Documentary and Best
Biographical Documentary
110min | DigiBeta | original version with German subtitles and English voice over available
To rob and sell children is a rewarding business in China: Over 20,000 children a year are being
kidnapped and become crime victims. Most of the time the parents are just uninfluential peasants or
migrant workers, investigations by the police are dragging on – if ever undertaken.
It is the same with Wanping. Since two years her parents are looking for the five year old child. We
accompany them with the camera. Dai was ten years old, when she was kidnapped in 1989. She was
not allowed to go to school anymore, instead she had to toil on the fields of her 'purchasing' parents.
Alike the children the bodily parents suffer, says Baoyan Zhang of the Chinese help organisation 'Baby
Come Home'. Many parents have psychological problems, some commit suicide, in other cases marriages
shatter. Some are already seeking for more than 20 years. Zhang managed to retrace Dai’s trails.
We accompany Dai when she clasps her parents in her arms after 22 years. And Dai’s purchasing" parents
explain, why they paid much money for the girl.
An investigative film about human trafficking.
German title: ENTFÜHRT UND VERKAUFT – Chinas geraubte Kinder
22min or 45min | HD | 16:9 | English or German version
Contact:
Gabi Heleen Bollinger
Bierbacher Str. 43
66424 Homburg Woerschweiler
Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 6848-265
cell: +49 (0) 171-4968375
gabibollinger@t-online.de
JOSCHKA & SIR FISCHER
by Pepe Danquart PORTRAIT | POLITICS | ORAL-HISTORY | HISTORY | SOCIETY
“I doubt if my mother voted for me back then.” Former German Minister of Foreign Affairs Joschka
Fischer comes from a conservative, Christian Democratic background. In Joschka and Sir Fischer, the
liberal politician tells of his life, which has been filled with extremes and contradictions: from his youth
shortly after the war through his rebellious years as a politically active student, to his career as the
government minister of a peaceful party that ultimately opted for intervening in Bosnia. He recounts
his personal story literally against the backdrop of 60 years of turbulent German history:
in the film, he is standing in an old factory between film screens on which historical footage is projected.
In the editing, these help to explain his story, accompanied of course by music that fits the era in
question. The film also makes 10 excursions to the stories of people who talk about their lives in a
given period. From the mendacious 1950s, the revolutionary 1960s, terrorist groups in the 1970s and
the peaceful anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, through to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the election
of the red-green government coalition under Gerhard Schröder.
Directed by Pepe Danquart, who won an Oscar for his fiction short Schwarzfahrer in 1994. (idfa)
With: Joschka Fischer, Hans Koschnick, Katharina Thalbach, Peter Grohmann, Norbert Erich Kröcher,
Johnny Klinke, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Marie-Reine Haug, Jürgen Hempel, Fehlfarben, Roger de Weck u.a.
Acknowledgment to Nadja Klier for disposal of the film stills.
German title: JOSCHKA UND HERR FISCHER
Festivals/Awards: Hessischer Film Prize, IDFAmsterdam
140min | color/b&w | 35mm | DVD | original German version with English subtitles available
Contact:
quintefilm@aol.com
office@dschointventschr.ch
www.quintefilm.de
www.dschointventschr.ch
www.joschka-und-herr-fischer.ch
KIDNAPPED AND SOLD – CHINAS STOLEN CHILDREN
by Edgar Wolf CURRENT AFFAIRES | HUMAN RIGHTS | POLITICS | SOCIAL | YOUTH | CRIME
Production:
filmtank gmbh
Kottbusser Damm 79
10967 Berlin, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 30-75631480
fax: +49 (0) 30-51056826
sylvia-nagel@filmtank.de
www.filmtank.de
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