More about the profile and portfolio of the footage service: Touching images of Germany and
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Overview of feature, documentary and animated films.
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The newsreel “The Eye-Witness” held this campaign from 1946 to 1948: short reports about children who list their parents during the confusion of war.
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Gustav J.
documentary - GDR, 1973, b/w, 19 min.
short film, biography, biopic, portrait, worker's film
Director Volker Koepp
Producer DEFA Studios for Documentary Films
Script Volker Koepp Camera Christian Lehmann Music Henner Golz
Voices
Alexander Lang
Synopsis
Gustav J., almost 80 years old, grew up in a family with many children in the German-Lithuanian border region. He was a farm hand, a smith, and a sailor, was thrown into the confusions of two world wars, honoured as an activist at the Warnow ship yard and is now living in Bad Doberan with his wife. His children, three of them went to university, are no longer living at home. His unique personality and his report give a lively insight into a turbulent life.
Festivals and Awards
International Short Film Festival Krakow 1975, Diagonale Graz 2000: Homage to Volker Koepp
