Rebuilding Berlin
Berlin im Aufbau
Kurt Maetzig
1946 • German Democratic Republic • 23’
Rise and Fall of the Wall – The Cinema of East Germany Retrospective
On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this retrospective will present films produced between 1946 and 1991, mostly by the East German state film studio, DEFA. This programme will bear witness to the diversity and abundance of talented women and men, filmmakers, depicting in different cinematic languages, free or censured, in propaganda and forbidden films, people living in a wounded country in a wounded territory. These documentaries, accompanied by some fiction films, needed to be rediscovered and re-evaluated from a current perspective.
Reconstrution
17 OUT / 15.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
WHY BUILD A WALL?
17 OUT / 18.30, Cinemateca – Sala Luís de Pina
HAIL TO THE GDR!
18 OUT / 19.00, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
17 OUT / 19.00, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
HAIL TO WORKERS!
17 OUT / 21.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
POWERFUL WOMEN?
19 OUT / 19.00, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
22 OUT / 18.30, Cinemateca – Sala Luís de Pina
THE WITTSTOCK GIRLS
19 OUT / 15.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
In 1974, director Volker Koepp went to Wittstock, an old town in Brandenburg close to Berlin, for the first time. He filmed the changes brought about by the construction of a huge textile factory. In his portrait of daily life, Koepp focussed on three women, Edith, Elsbeth and Renate, who were struggling with problems at work, got married and had children. He filmed them until 1997. Here we present the four first films.
PORTRAITS
18 OUT / 18.30, Cinemateca – Sala Luís de Pina
HOW WONDERFUL IS OUR YOUTH! 1
18 OUT / 15.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
HOW WONDERFUL IS OUR YOUTH! 2
18 OUT / 21.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
COPS AND ROBBERS
21 OUT / 15.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
ORDINARY LIFE
22 OUT / 15.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
THE MUSIC SCENE
19 OUT / 21.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
EVERY WOMAN
24 OUT / 21.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
THE MARCH BRANDENBURG TRILOGY, PARTS 1 AND 2
21 OUT / 19.00, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
THE MARCH BRANDENBURG TRILOGY, PART 3
22 OUT / 21.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
THE WALL FALLS
24 OUT / 15.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
THE WALL HAS FALLEN
24 OUT / 19.00, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
BERLIN STORIES 1
25 OUT / 15.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
BERLIN STORIES 2
26 OUT / 15.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
KADDISH, A PRAYER TO THE DEAD
25 OUT / 21.30, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
THE STASI
25 OUT / 19.00, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro
THE IRON AGE
22 OUT / 19.00, Cinemateca – Sala M. F. Ribeiro