Dearest readers and users of this catalogue, - German Documentaries

CROSSING THE SKIES
From East-Berlin Around the World
by Undine Siepker WORK | GERMAN REUNIFICATION | PORTRAIT
Welcome aboard Interflug, the only airline of the former
German Democratic Republic! Fasten your seatbelts during a
turbulent flight through the romanticized past and dynamic
present of an East German flight crew. Four stewardesses and
one pilot take off once more and look back at a time when
crossing borders between east and west was the privilege of
only a few. Numerous adventures in Cuba, Africa or Singapore
formed a different perspective on their lives back home in the
GDR and on the fall of the Berlin wall. In 1991, Interflug was shut down and they built new identities
in a new society. Nowadays, some are still going off in the job of their dreams, others got their feet
back on the ground and keep faithfully their airborne heart.
German title: FREIFLIEGEN
Festivals: Kassel
72min | DigiBeta | 16:9 | PAL | German vewrsion with English textlist
"The Day / Der Tag" tells the story about the every day occurence of death. The essay-film scetches
the last day of about ten people who died in Berlin. As voice-overs, the "passers-by", or the different
people close to the deceased, tell their story of that particular day from when they woke up, until the
moment of death – somewhere in the city. Sometimes this moment is totally surprising, and sometimes
it seems somehow forceful...
Spaces become something like an intermediate world in this formally very strict and konsequent film.
Sonically, "daily life" is staged as a musical, dramaturgical sound collage by FM Einheit (Einstuerzende
Neubauten).cinematic meditation on the immediate near to death.
Original sound composition FM Einheit
In memoriam: Eszter Szabo, Anna Friedrich, Maria Pia Heinitz, Andreas Freese, Roland Krueger,
Constanze Hoffmann, Gerhard Weber, Clemens Berger, Gunnar Ortlepp, Jeanette Kohlmann, Heinz
Schneider und Luca Zehnle.
Tellers: Eva Baumann, Jakob Friedrich, Ruth Sieveking, Tino Czerwinski, Anne Steckner, Christian Blöss,
Monika Gaugel-Weber, Herr Gruender, Sandy Wienberg, Andreas Kohlmann, Esther Schneider & and
Tina Zehnle.
German title: DER TAG
Festivals: DOK Leipzig
84min | HD | color | original German version with English with English voice over or French subtitles available
Contact:
pangeafilm
Claudia Wolf
Drosselsteig 23
15827 Blankenfelde, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 174-3120905
pangeafilm@gmx.de
www.pangeafilm.de
THE CULINARY ADVENTURES OF SARAH WIENER IN ITALY
by Mechthild Gassner, Marion Glaser and Malika Rabahallah CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY | FOOD | PORTRAIT | AGRICULTURE
The famous chef Sarah Wiener is on the road again – this time she’ll make her way through the Italian
landscape and cuisine. With her interpreter Michele Marotta Sarah is taking a peek into the regional
cooking pots to discover Italy’s culinary secrets. Ten Italian regions are waiting to be discovered and by
the end of each episodes, Sarah has to show what she’s learned - surprising her newly found friends
with a recipe inspired by the local cuisine and the people she’s met.
German title: DIE KULINARISCHEN ABENTEUER DER SARAH WIENER IN ITALIEN
10x43min | 16:9 | DigiBeta | German and Italian with German voice-over
Contact:
zero one film GmbH
Lehrter Str. 57
10557 Berlin, Germany
tel.:+49 (0) 30-390 66 30
fax: +49 (0) 30-394 58 34
office@zeroone.de
www.zeroone.de
THE DAY
by Uli M. Schueppel EXPERIMENTAL | CITY | DAILY LIFE | DEATH
Contact:
schueppel-films
Uli M.Schueppel
Husemannstr. 33
10435 Berlin, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 30-4429457
info@schueppel-films.de
www.schueppel-films.de
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