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7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Haus-Kino: Herzsprung
Film Screening | Lost in the 90ies
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Goethe-Institut Montreal, Montreal
- Language Original with English subtitles.
- Price Free of charge. Recommended donation $5.
- Part of series: Lost in the 90ies
Germany, 1992, 87 min.
Regie: Helke Misselwitz
Mit u.a. Claudia Geisler-Bading, Günter Lamprecht, Eva-Maria Hagen, Nino Sandow, Tatjana Besson, Ben Becker, Steffen Scheumann, Peter Planitzer, Gabriele Gysi, Hanns Zischler
Herzsprung, a village in Brandenburg, just after reunification. Factory cook Johanna loses her job and soon after becomes a widow when her husband commits suicide. The mother of two small children gets new energy from her friend Lisa, a hairdresser, and her feelings for an African-German who runs a snack bar at the edge of town. But while Johanna's father, a concentration camp survivor, enjoys a late-in-life new love, Johanna and her boyfriend become the target of young neo-Nazis…
For her narrative debut, DEFA documentary filmmaker Helke Misselwitz joined with Thomas Wilkening to found one of the first private East German film production companies. Developed and shot against the background of xenophobic attacks in Rostock and Hoyerswerda in 1991/92, Herzsprung displayed a keen feel for the mood during unification's radical social upheavals, as well as a sense of historical consciousness. As one of very few East German contemporary films, it was – aesthetically, feminist, inter-cultural – completely in tune with its time. Consciously playing on "ostalgia", it employed eastern European songs from "Russian discos" and references to motifs from old DEFA fairy tale films. - www.filmportal.de
Content Note: Herzsprung explores the profound social transformations of post-reunification Germany, addressing unemployment, marginalization, and racist violence. The film includes racist and ableist language as well as scenes of physical violence. These elements reflect the historical and social realities of the early 1990s and may be distressing for some viewers.
Regie: Helke Misselwitz
Mit u.a. Claudia Geisler-Bading, Günter Lamprecht, Eva-Maria Hagen, Nino Sandow, Tatjana Besson, Ben Becker, Steffen Scheumann, Peter Planitzer, Gabriele Gysi, Hanns Zischler
Herzsprung, a village in Brandenburg, just after reunification. Factory cook Johanna loses her job and soon after becomes a widow when her husband commits suicide. The mother of two small children gets new energy from her friend Lisa, a hairdresser, and her feelings for an African-German who runs a snack bar at the edge of town. But while Johanna's father, a concentration camp survivor, enjoys a late-in-life new love, Johanna and her boyfriend become the target of young neo-Nazis…
For her narrative debut, DEFA documentary filmmaker Helke Misselwitz joined with Thomas Wilkening to found one of the first private East German film production companies. Developed and shot against the background of xenophobic attacks in Rostock and Hoyerswerda in 1991/92, Herzsprung displayed a keen feel for the mood during unification's radical social upheavals, as well as a sense of historical consciousness. As one of very few East German contemporary films, it was – aesthetically, feminist, inter-cultural – completely in tune with its time. Consciously playing on "ostalgia", it employed eastern European songs from "Russian discos" and references to motifs from old DEFA fairy tale films. - www.filmportal.de
Content Note: Herzsprung explores the profound social transformations of post-reunification Germany, addressing unemployment, marginalization, and racist violence. The film includes racist and ableist language as well as scenes of physical violence. These elements reflect the historical and social realities of the early 1990s and may be distressing for some viewers.
Location
Goethe-Institut Montreal
1626 boul. St-Laurent
Bureau 100
Montreal H2X 2T1
Kanada
1626 boul. St-Laurent
Bureau 100
Montreal H2X 2T1
Kanada