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Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
164 min + 148 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Thomas Heise

Written By:
Thomas Heise

Actors:
Thomas Heise

Synopsis:

A montage of film material that dates back to the German Democratic Republic of the late 1980s and stretches to the present, the year 2008. Footage shot by Thomas Heise himself or taken at locations where he filmed, but never published. Outtakes that remained: Scenes at the theater during Fritz Marquardt's production of Heiner Müller's "Germania Tod in Berlin", the eviction of squatters from houses on Mainzer Straße, the mass demonstration at Alexanderplatz in November 1989, a residents' meeting in Hessenwinkel in Berlin, a session of the newly elected People's Parliament [the former East German parliament], scenes from inside Brandenburg prison, youths from the far-left scene staging an attack at a film screening, scenes from the demolition of the Palast der Republik. All testimony to a none-too-distant past. German history. There's always something left over, bits and pieces that don't fit in. Notes, traces, fragments, chunks. Rather than assembling his material into a historical panorama, Thomas Heise literally opens up a Zeit-Raum, a time-space, a resonating body in which sentences, images, stories and memories can reverberate. The soundtrack by Charles Ives does the rest. This is archaeology of the possible and not least, an elegy to the past.

Images from the late 1980s in East Germany to the immediate present, 2008, in Germany. What remains besieges my head. In it, all these images come together again as something different from what they were originally intended to be. They remain in motion. They become history. (Thomas Heise) The DVD set also offers rare early works by Thomas Heise, unique and authentic images of everyday's life in the GDR, immediately banned in the GDR.

Material - Germany 2009 - Directed and written by: Thomas Heise - Photographed by: Peter Badel, Sebastian Richter, Thomas Heise, Jutta Tränkle, Börres Weiffenbach - Edited by: René Frölke - Produced by: Ma.Ja.De. Filmproduktions GmbH, Leipzig - Premiere: February 12, 2009 (Internationales Forum des Jungen Films, Berlinale 2009)

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 06 October, 2011.

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