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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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Biographies – The Story Of The Children Of Golzow
Original title: Lebensläufe - Geschichte der Kinder von Golzow in einzelnen Porträts
documentary - GDR, 1980, color + b/w, 256 min.
chronicle, biography, biopic, series
Director Winfried Junge
Producer DEFA Studios for Documentary Films
Script Winfried Junge, Hans-Eberhard Leupold, Uwe Kant
Based Upon An idea of Karl Gass
Camera Hans-Eberhard Leupold (1962), Hans Dumke (1961) Music Gerhard Rosenfeld, Kurt Grottke, Peter Gotthardt
Poster Art H. Winter
Voices
Winfried Junge
Synopsis
“Biographies” draws a balance after twenty years of observation of the “Children of Golzow“. Nine children are presented in individual portraits, from the sand pit to their choice of career and starting a family.
A film from the longest long-term-observation of international film history – “The Children Of Golzow“ from 1961 until today.
Festivals and Awards
Among the 100 best German films of all times, International Documentary and Animation Film Festival Leipzig 1981: Golden Dove, Berlin International Film Festival Forum 1982: FIPRESCI Award and Otto Dibelius Film Prize, Festival Biografilm Bologna 2006
