Gerd Kroske Collection (1990 - 2012) - 5-DVD Box Set ( Kehraus / Kehrein, kehraus / Kehraus, wieder / Vokzal - Bahnhof Brest / Galera / Schranken / Der Boxprinz / Wollis Paradies / Heino Jaeger Look Before You Kuck / La Villette ) ( Last Dance / Sweep It Up, Swig It Down / Sweep It Up, Again / Vokzal-The Brest Station / Galera / Bounds / The Boxing Prince / Wolli in Paradise / Heino Jaeger Look Before You Kuck / La Villette )

Gerd Kroske Collection (1990 - 2012) - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kehraus / Kehrein, kehraus / Kehraus, wieder / Vokzal - Bahnhof Brest / Galera / Schranken / Der Boxprinz / Wollis Paradies / Heino Jaeger Look Before You Kuck / La Villette
Alternate Title: Last Dance / Sweep It Up, Swig It Down / Sweep It Up, Again / Vokzal-The Brest Station / Galera / Bounds / The Boxing Prince / Wolli in Paradise / Heino Jaeger Look Before You Kuck / La Villette
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
German ( Mono )

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

Running Time:
920 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1990 - 2012 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Gerd Kroske

Written By:
Gerd Kroske
Thomas Plenert

Actors:
Gerd Kroske
Wilhelm von Homburg ..... Himself
Jürgen Blin ..... Himself
Maria Esteban ..... Herself
Hans Haefke ..... Himself
Stephan Henschel ..... Himself
Werner Herzog ..... Himself
Hanne Kleine ..... Himself
Egon Koltermann ..... Himself
Blues Kopperschmidt ..... Himself
Wolli Köhler ..... Himself
Manfred Littmann ..... Himself
John Mayer ..... Himself
Domenica Niehoff ..... Herself
Walter Staudinger ..... Himself
Wolfgang Wiedemann ..... Himself
Wolfgang Köhler ..... Himself
Michael Brendel
Jürgen Böttcher
Joachim Damm
Peter Dittmer
Ulrich Domröse
Else Gabriel
Conny Hege
Volker Henze
Klaus Killisch
Volker Lewandowsky
Maurice Najman
Helga Paris
Hans Schimansky
Christoph Tannert
Agnes Wegner
Trakia Wendisch

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***All films contain English subtitles except Die Stundeneiche & Bonus films***Gerd Kroske came as an outsider to the DEFA documentary film studio and developed his cinematic handwriting midst of the upheaval of the reversal. This experience acts according to today: Kroske finds his subjects, especially where the distortions of historical events affect the lives of people. With unbiased eyes he feels for his part, quirky, sometimes tragic figures and stories on the fringes of society. In its remoteness is the strength of his films, which always surprise and attract the audience from the first minute to its spell. The DVD box set presents his most important works, including the Clean Sweep trilogy and the three Hamburg films including the award-winning HEINO JAEGER - LOOK BEFORE YOU KUCK (Golden Dove DOK Leipzig 2012)
List of Films:
Last Dance (1990)
Sweep It Up, Swig It Down (1997)
Sweep It Up, Again (2006)
Vokzal-The Brest Station (1994)
Galera (1998)
Bounds (2009)
The Boxing Prince (2002)
Wolli in Paradise (2008)
Heino Jaeger Look Before You Kuck (2012)
La Villette (1990)

Last Dance (1990)
Big politics from a nighttime perspective: when revolution and elections are reduced to campaign posters in the trash.

Sweep It Up, Swig It Down (1997)
This 1997 picture picks up the lives of Gabi, Stefan and Henry, three street sweepers in Leipzig, after their appearances in director Kroske's Sweeping (1990). In the opening the three appear with what seems to be a portrait of themselves during the filming of the previous film. The earlier monochrome piece is subsequently projected onto the screen of an empty theater. There the three move more deftly than today as they diligently clean the streets. Now they have already reached old age and have quit street sweeping, yet their lives are still not secure. While interspersing scenes of street sweeping and construction work in present-day, mechanized Leipzig, Kroske presents the severe city lives of each of his troubled protagonists. It is hard to gaze upon their gloomy expressions, but the effectively controlled camera neither overlooks them nor forces sympathy upon the viewer. This is a work of strange charm.

Sweep It Up, Again (2006)
Directly after the elections in March 1990 Gerd Kroske filmed in the streets of Leipzig for the second time. His road sweepers swept away what wasn't needed any longer: posters, flags, cigarette butt. The film contained impressive images of the apocalyptical atmosphere in the GDR. Twice the film-maker returned to those men and women who had allowed him intimate views into their lives between casual work, jail and pub. 1996, in none of them still worked for the Leipzig department of city cleaning. And in 2006 too, in the third film, their daily lives take place between homes and social security office. Stefan and Marlen are dead. Henry and Marion get by. The grandchildren live with foster carers and sometimes things get worse than one believed possible to bear.

Vokzal-The Brest Station (1994)
Documentary on Brest station, a village between Poland and Russia, and the history of the place. Film shows the desperate situation of a young soldier without relatives and army, as well as the suicide of a former defense soldier. Features a man who survived German concentration camps and Soviet prisoners-of-war camps and the compelling humour of a singing taxi driver.

Galera (1998)
Documentary about young orphans: Wassja in St. Petersburg; Mohamed in Paris; Cesar, Gilson and Fabino in Rio; Patrick in Berlin.

Bounds (2009)
In the 80's, new border barrier systems were used in the former GDR. The escape attempts with cars towards West Germany increased. Metal workers and Stasi (Ministry for State Security) are working hand in hand for the defense against 'terrorism' in order to prevent escape attempts. In conspiratorial work they created new barriers after their actual working hours. Crash tests for the defense against terrorism, collisions for the case of emergency. Cars crashing into the new barricades, leaving a total loss. From the mid-80s those barriers were installed at all border crossing points. The film is about the motivation of all who were involved, from tragic ending escapes and gives insight into the German engineering ingenuity and the military spirit.

The Boxing Prince (2002)
The film is about Norbert Grupe, aka Prinz Wilhelm von Homburg - the pop star of German professional boxers. Whether dressed in ermine-trimmed shorts or as a dandy wearing a morning coat and carrying a cane, he was a gifted showman. The film talks about his activities in the red light district of St. Pauli, as well as his involvement with the Hells Angels, and of his trip to Hollywood when he was an actor, and of his legendary silent appearance on ZDF's TV program "Das aktuelle Sportstudio."

Wolli in Paradise (2008)
The film is a portrait of the former Saxon brothel and porn cinema owner Wolli Köhler, who also paints and writes poetry. From his home in the Hamburg suburbs, he talks about his life, his work in the mines, his socialist brothel in St. Pauli and his trips to India, which were immortalized by the writer Hubert Fichte.

Heino Jaeger Look Before You Kuck (2012)
The film re-discovers a forgotten artist: Heino Jaeger, a painter, cabaret artist and radio star who rose to cult status in the 1970s and spent the last years of his life in a psychiatric institution. Discussions with Jaeger's companions, pictures, photos, paintings and audio tapes made by him and also featuring him create a picture of a man difficult to grasp and traumatized by the war who tried to work off the German post-war mentality.

La Villette (1990)
Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists, including Jürgen Böttcher, the Autoperforation Artists, Via Lewandowsky, Trak Wendisch, Conny Hege, Klaus Killisch, Helga Paris and Hanns Schimansky, presented works rarely shown in the GDR at the exhibition space in the former La Villette slaughterhouses on the outskirts of Paris. The three-day exhibition, L'autre Allemagne hors les murs (The Other Germany Outside the Walls), was curated by East German art historian Christoph Tannert and French journalist Maurice Najman in France. In Kroske's documentation, historical footage from Georges Franju's 1949 film Le Sang des bêtes (Blood of the Beasts) and texts from Les Chants de Maldorer (The Songs of Maldoror), by Comte de Lautréamont, blend to create a nuanced time capsule of this unique event.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 07 February, 2014.