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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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Wittstock Life
Original title: Leben in Wittstock
documentary - GDR, 1984, b/w, 85 min.
chronicle, biography, biopic, worker's film, woman film, series
Director Volker Koepp
Producer DEFA Studios for Documentary Films
Script Volker Koepp, Wolfgang Geier, Annerose Richter Camera Christian Lehmann Music Rainer Böhm
Voices
Volker Koepp
Synopsis
Three women talk about their commitment at work in a textile factory and about their withdrawal into private life in the small town. The feature-length compilation film was supposed to be the ending of the Wittstock short films: for ten years Volker Koepp has been accompanying the workers of the knit work factory. They talk of the teething problems of the business, of the high fluctuation, of the deficiencies of the management and, last but not least, of their own dreams and hopes.
After the film’s tape protocols were published in the FDJ magazine, the women were observed.
Festivals and Awards
Award of the Film Critics Association of the GDR 1984, 27th International Documentary and Short Film Festival Leipzig 1984: Silver Dove, International Film Festival Berlin 1985: Forum
