Festivalmotiv

30 YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE WALL Saturday 23 March 2019, 7:00 pm

Three eyewitnesses - East and West - film and conversation

GUESTS: Claus Oppermann & Gerald Grote; Curation: Jan Nordsieck & Nadine Bors

Two films and a conversation tell about the construction of the Wall in 1961 and about life at the inner-German border up to the fall of the Wall in 1989. Gerhard Taege (1928, D) and his film club followed the course of the Wall during and after the construction of the Wall in 1961. He sold the 16mm shots taken at that time to the television stations, he kept the 8mm shots and showed them to us.
The filmmakers Claus Oppermann and Gerald Grote produced a breathtaking emotional work in 2012 from more than 250 narrow films with 50 hours of raw material by private filmmakers from Germany, Austria and the USA: Bis an DIE GRENZE - der private Blick auf die Mauer/ Up to THE BORDER - the private view on the wall.

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