Film
Cinemaverse: Gundermann

German with English subtitles

Wed, 05.05.2021
7:00 PM - 20:30 CAT Goethe-Institut Namibia

Germany, Director Andreas Dressen

This screening is open to the public and has a reserved number of seats in compliance with social distancing regulations. Includes popcorn.
 
GUNDERMANN tells the story of a digger driver who writes songs. He is a poet, a clown, an idealist. He dreams and hopes, loves and struggles. He’s a spy who gets spied on, a do-gooder who doesn’t know better. He is torn. GUNDERMANN is both a music film and a love story; a drama about guilt and entanglement, about suppression and confrontation.
 
GUNDERMANN is a film about the homeland. It takes a new look back at the GDR, a country that has disappeared. It’s not too late – in fact, it’s about time.
 
In GUNDERMANN, director Andreas Dresen looks at the life of Gerhard “Gundi” Gundermann – one of the most formative music artists of East Germany – with sensibility, affection, and humor. Gundermann died in 1998, at the age of 43. The screenplay is written by Laila Stieler.

The leading role is played by Alexander Scheer, who sang all the songs in the film himself. His wife is portrayed by Anna Unterberger, with other roles played by Axel Prahl, Thorsten Merten, Bjarne Madel, Milan Peschel, Kathrin Angerer, and Peter Sodann.

Cinemaverse, a project by the Goethe-Institut Namibia, will throughout the course of 2021 screen art-house films from in and out of Africa.