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The first film is a screenplay based on a story by Maxim Gorki poetically set to the medium of film. It is called The Morning. The pictures were taken in Krasnowidowo a remote village of the Volga river. Gorki led a withdrawn life in the year 1888.The music and pictures create a unique setting to add "understanding to the story". The added letters were written by Gorki to the children and the children back to him. The illustrations are from historical photographs and film documents.
Die Tur (the door) -The students in Guestrow, a town in Mecklenburg, restore a 200 year old baroque door and the film is a documentary about the restoration. The danger the door would be destroyed was due to Communist neglect in the "old" town.
- But the essential is: The DOOR is a symbol. Its restoration is a allegory for a responsible dealing with the heritage of forefathers. (Quote)
- Free association of thoughts on different levels is entertained.
- The GDR, communist Germany, temporarily abandoned the film as the Communists were desirous of eradicating the legacies of the past as they were seen to conflict with the party line. This deprivation of the enrichment of past heritage was often planned or preplanned by them.
- The film-makers went on a discovery journey, longer than one year. It was a discovery journey to the boys and girls of a eighth class. They wanted to know from they: How is that with the love, if you are twelve, thirteen, fourteen? About what do you dream, what would you like? How it is, if you falls in love for the first time? What do the parents think about the first love, what the teachers, what think the others in the class? (Quote)
Flammen- 1942 Berlin In 1942 had in Berlin, the German capital, a group of anti-fascists the National Socialist exhibition of hate "Das Sowjetparadies" (the soviet-paradise) set into fire. The resistance group consisted primarily of young Jewish Communists.Their head was Herbert Baum a forced laborer in the Siemens Company. He was murdered during the preliminary investigation, and 21 members were condemned to death. Survivors remember their murdered friends and comrades.
Der Morgen (The Morning)Adapted from a story by Maxim Gorki
Directed by Konrad WeißScreenplay: Bodo Schulenburg and Konrad
WeißCinematographer: Michael LöscheComposer: Udo ZimmermannSound: Reinhard
Helmecke and Henner GolzEditor: Martina HoffmannScript Editor: Ev
WittmannProducer: Gerhard Radam and Mark Leonowitsch RushanskiDEFA Studio für
Dokumentarfilme, Berlin, 198127 min. - 35 mm - colourFirst broadcast: 11th
October 1981, Fernsehen der DDR
The pictures to this film were taken in
Krasnowidowo, a remote village at Volga river. The Russian writer Maxim Gorki
led there a withdrawn life in the year 1888. It's a village, in which the
farmers today live still almost in such a way as before one hundred years.
In
his narration "Der Morgen" describes Maxim Gorki with poetic strength the
beginning of a new day. The music and the film pictures take up his motives.
Also were added a few letters, written by Maxim Gorki to the children, and
others written from children to him. These texts be illustrated with historical
photographs and film documents.
Die Tür (The door)Documentary about restoration of a baroque door in Güstrow (Mecklenburg)
Screenplay and Direction by Konrad WeißCinematographer: Heiner SylvesterSound: Kurt Hoy and Hansjürgen MittagEditor: Eleonore BurkeProducer: Günter ZaleikeDEFA Studio für Dokumentarfilme, Berlin, 197826 min. - 35 mm - black and whiteFoto: © Konrad Weiß
In summer 1978, six pupils from the secondary school in Guestrow, a town in Mecklenburg, have restored a 200 years old baroque door. There was the danger that the door could be destroyed, like as much was neglected by the communists in the old part of town. The film shows the manifold processing steps, which were necessary for the preservation of the door.
But the essential is: The DOOR is a symbol. Its restoration is a allegory for a responsible dealing with the heritage of forefathers. When he is seeing the film, the spectator has freedom to play with form and thoughts. Free associations of thoughts are possible on many different ways.
The film was temporarily forbidden in the GDR.
erste Liebe (first Love)A Film diary
Directed by Konrad WeißScreenplay: Steffi Schröder and Konrad WeißCinematographer: Michael LöscheComposer: Thomas NatschinskiLyrics: Konrad WeißSong: Marion Sprawe and JessicaSound: Jürgen Abel and Ulrich FenglerScript Editor: Ev WittmannProducer: Rainer BaumertDEFA Studio für Dokumentarfilme, Berlin, 198565 min. - 35 mm - colour
The film-makers went on a discovery journey, longer than one year. It was a discovery journey to the boys and girls of a eighth class. They wanted to know from they: How is that with the love, if you are twelve, thirteen, fourteen? About what do you dream, what would you like? How it is, if you falls in love for the first time? What do the parents think about the first love, what the teachers, what think the others in the class?
In the focal point of the film-diary are standing Claudia and Thomas. She is thirteen and he is seventeen years old. They experience the great luck of the first love. Without shyness they let the film-spectators see a little bit of their happiness.
Flammen (Flames)
Screenplay and Direction by Konrad WeißCinematographer: Wolfgang DietzelEditor: Monika SchäferDiplomfilm. Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst (German Academy for Film and Television),Potsdam-Babelsberg, 1967, 197020 min. - 35 mm - black and white
In 1942 had in Berlin, the German capital, a group of anti-fascists the National Socialist exhibition of hate "Das Sowjetparadies" (the soviet-paradise) set into fire. The resistance group consisted predominantly of young Jewish communists. Their head was Herbert Baum, which was a forced labourer in the Siemens company. 21 members of the group became condemned to death. Herbert Baum was murdered during the preliminary investigation.
In this film some survivors of Jewish resistance-fighters report on their courageous operation. They remember their murdered friends' and comrades' in struggle.
Cinematography of the Holocaust
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