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7:30 PM

The Architects

Film

  • Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hongkong

  • Price $ 80/64* *Tickets for full-time students, senior citizens, aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients.| Group Booking Discount: 20% off for purchase of 4 or more above standard tickets. | 20% discount to Goethe-Institut Hongkong’s students with a valid proof
  • Part of series: Winds of Change

Die Architekten © DEFA Stiftung /Christa Koefer

Director: Peter Kahane
1990 | 102 mins | German with English subtitles | DCP | Colour
Introduction and post-screening talk by Andreas Kötzing


Awards:
Special Prize, National Feature Film Festival of the GDR 1990
Berlin International Film Festival 1991

Despite the cold eyes and the ridicules
Never give up the ideals in your heart


After years of building bus shelters and phone booths, Daniel, an architect in his late thirties, is finally commissioned to build a major community centre on the fringe of East Berlin. Promised with a team of architects that he has chosen, he leads his old colleagues and friends to realise an ambitious design to counter the dull constructions of the GDR. With a conservative superior, a team that is falling apart and a wife who longs for the West, Daniel ponders on his country and its people.

This is the last film made by the GDR, and is one of the first films to depict the last days of the state during the transitional period of the unification. By the time the filming was finished, the GDR no longer existed.