Frank Vogel & Gerhard Klein Collection (5 Films) - 2-DVD Set ( ...und deine Liebe auch / Schaut auf diese Stadt / Sonntagsfahrer / Geschichten jener Nacht ) ( And Your Love Too / Look at this City / Sunday Driver / Stories of That Night (Materna / Two Wills) )

Frank Vogel & Gerhard Klein Collection (5 Films) - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: ...und deine Liebe auch / Schaut auf diese Stadt / Sonntagsfahrer / Geschichten jener Nacht
Alternate Title: And Your Love Too / Look at this City / Sunday Driver / Stories of That Night (Materna / Two Wills)
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Mono )

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

Running Time:
301 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1962 - 1967 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Frank Vogel
Karl Gass
Gerhard Klein
Karl-Heinz Carpentier

Written By:
Paul Wiens
Karl Gass
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler
Karl-Georg Egel
Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Helmut Baierl
Werner Bräunig

Actors:
Armin Mueller-Stahl ..... Ullrich Settich
Kati Székely ..... Eva
Ulrich Thein ..... Klaus Husemann
Alfonso Arau ..... Alfredo
Katharina Lind ..... Margot
Maria Besendahl ..... Frau Medicke - Evas Wirtin
Marita Böhme ..... Fürsorgerin
Doris Thalmer ..... Nachbarin
Gisela Strauss ..... Betriebsredakteurin
Bertina Acevedo ..... Kubanische Begleiterin
Christel Bodenstein
Karl Gass
Werner Höhne
Eberhard Mellies
Georg Thies
Angelica Domröse ..... Sabine
Erika Dunkelmann ..... Wirtin
Gerd Ehlers ..... Rosentreter
Hans Finohr ..... Kontrolleur
Walter E. Fuß ..... Autoschlossermeister
Erich Gerberding ..... Teichert
Herwart Grosse ..... Dr. Denker
Harald Halgardt ..... Spiessack
Rita Hempel ..... Bäuerin
Hartmut Kirschke ..... Gernulf
Irene Korb ..... Miriam
Erich Mirek ..... VP-Wachtmeister
Günter Naumann ..... VP-Wachtmeister
Wolfgang Ostberg ..... Bauernbursche
Helmut Schreiber ..... Professor
Ellinor Vogel ..... Friedchen
Ulrich Thein ..... Materna (segment "Materna")
Angelika Waller ..... Hanna (segment "Materna")
Johannes Wieke ..... Wiczorek (segment "Materna")
Erwin Geschonneck ..... Willi Lenz (segment "Der grosse und der kleine Willi")
Jaecki Schwarz ..... Wilfried Zank (segment "Der grosse und der kleine Willi")
Christoph Engel ..... Fighter with Glasses (segment "Der grosse und der kleine Willi")

Synopsis:

The construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, was a pivotal break in German history and had to be justified in movies produced by East Germany's DEFA studio. The 2-disc DVD set presents for the first time films by reknowned directors that tried to address topical events. Two of the films even include documentary footage shot in the summer of 1961. DVD 1: ... und deine Liebe auch 1962, 89' | Schaut auf diese Stadt 1962, 81' DVD 2: Sonntagsfahrer 1963, 84' | Materna 1967, 15' | Der große und der kleine Willi 1967, 32'

1960-61: At the DEFA Studio for newsreels and documentaries, director Karl Gass considers shooting a feature-length documentary about West Berlin, the 'perpetual hotbed of provocation,' 'thorn in the side of the GDR' and 'threat to world peace.' In the summer of 1961, he assigns his cinematographer Hans Dumke to shoot suitable footage. Among other things, Dumke films troop movements of the Western allied forces on the transit highway between West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) and West Berlin. West German colleagues working for DEFA are also ordered to shoot footage for the project. Summer 1961: Karl Gass is closely involved in reviewing the footage for his West Berlin film project and thinking about its structure. As part of the process, he screens international archive and newsreel footage, primarily from the period between 1945 and 1961. Roman Karmen has pre-selected much of the footage from the archives of the Central Studio for Documentary Film in Moscow, such as sequences from the first session of the Berlin military command after World War II. August 13, 1961: Construction of the Berlin Wall begins. The western part of the city is hermetically sealed off from the East. Freedom of travel to and from West Berlin is interrupted. There is no military intervention from the Western powers. The East German government calls the wall an 'antifascist democratic bulwark.' On the day the Wall is erected, Karl Gass goes on summer vacation to Bulgaria. For Gass, an unintended consequence of the construction of the wall is that it provides the focal point for his long-planned West Berlin film. The project, SCHAUT AUF DIESE STADT (LOOK AT THIS CITY), can now be bluntly used as propaganda to justify the Wall. August 13, 1962: East Germany mounts a major propaganda offensive to promote the premiere of Karl Gass' documentary SCHAUT AUF DIESE STADT on the first anniversary of the construction of the Wall. English, French, and Spanish versions are made at the same time as the German original. SCHAUT AUF DIESE STADT is screened in East German foreign missions. In the East Berlin daily 'Junge Welt,' the director discusses how he wants his film 'to provide workers, intellectuals and artists from many countries with accurate information about a city that has so often been the focus of global attention, and to demonstrate the necessity and urgency of the call by the governments of the Soviet Union and the GDR for the creation of a free West Berlin.' (8/2/1962) September 27, 1962: The first narrative film about the construction of the Wall, ... UND DEINE LIEBE AUCH (...AND YOUR LOVE TOO, working title: BEI UNS WHERE WE LIVE) premieres in Berlin. Shot without a screenplay, a shooting schedule, or an estimated budget, the sole basis of its unusual development was an eleven-page memo from mid-August 1961: 'We will film our story as it happens, in sync with history, in its real temporal, local, and personal environment; on the streets and in the buildings of Berlin, at meetings, in the squares and parks, at the light bulb factory, on Warschau Bridge, at 'Aktivist', at a post office, in a workers' combat group, at the border, etc. Only our three main characters will be played by actors. Everyone else in the film is what s/he is in life. To the extent that they actively participate in the action, they will be playing themselves, in their real social positions, at their actual workplaces, in their own homes. They will express their own opinions without mincing words and behave as they do (or would do) in the same situation in reality. Principal photography must begin before the end of August. Location shooting will be completed by late 1961 . . . we will begin shooting in the studio in early January 1962.' Although the projected total cost of the project was about 677,000, the film ends up costing only 574,200 marks. After the premiere, reviews appear with headlines like 'With a Poet's Heart« (Neues Deutschland), »People at Our Side« (Sonntag), or 'Love Letter to Berlin' (Deutsche Filmkunst). August 30, 1963: Shot from 6/20-12/17/1962 on a budget of 1,582,000 marks, the DEFA film SONNTAGSFAHRER (SUNDAY DRIVER) premieres at Berlin's Babylon cinema. The magazine film Wissen schaftliche Mitteilungen publishes excerpts from the screenplay.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 21 December, 2016.