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Retrospective 2023
Filmstill One Wednesday in June – 20 Years Ago: People’s Uprising, Workers’ Revolt or Secret Services Putsch?
One Wednesday in June – 20 Years Ago: People’s Uprising, Workers’ Revolt or Secret Services Putsch?
Lutz Lehmann
Workers’ revolt or popular uprising? Or an attempted Western coup after all? 20 years after 17 June 1953, a television report looks for answers. The interpretations remain open.
Filmstill One Wednesday in June – 20 Years Ago: People’s Uprising, Workers’ Revolt or Secret Services Putsch?

One Wednesday in June – 20 Years Ago: People’s Uprising, Workers’ Revolt or Secret Services Putsch?

Ein Mittwoch im Juni – Vor 20 Jahren: Volksaufstand, Arbeiterrevolte oder Agentenputsch?
Lutz Lehmann
Retrospective 2023
Documentary Film
FRG
1973
60 minutes
German
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What happened in the GDR on 17 June 1953? Using a lot of original footage, Norddeutscher Rundfunk looks back on the events in a detailed report marking their 20th anniversary and shows different interpretations and explanations. Agent coup? Workers’ revolt? Popular uprising? The interpretations were controversial, even among contemporary witnesses and Western historians.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

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Director
Lutz Lehmann
Cinematographer
Hans Jacob
Editor
Elke Düring
Producer
NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk / German TV ARD Network
Sound
Jürgen Jannsen, Norbert Kinsky
Retrospective 2021
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Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene
Jean-Marie Straub
A film score to which no film was ever made – except this collage of words and images that deduces terrifying anti-Semitic continuities from letters and visual associations.
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Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene

Einleitung zu Arnold Schönbergs Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene
Jean-Marie Straub
Retrospective 2021
Documentary Film
FRG
1972
16 minutes
German
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“Imminent danger, fear, catastrophe,“ the Austrian-Jewish composer Arnold Schönberg wrote on top of his film score in 1930, to which – except in this collage, swaying like a battered boxer between austere reading document, black film abysses and roaring tempests of images – no film was ever made. Schönberg’s letters articulate the forebodings of the disaster the National Socialists were to bring upon the Jews, describe anti-Semitism that was becoming systematic, marginalization and defamation. Inserted in between, as a look back and forward at historical continuities: bombers approaching Vietnam, the shot Paris Communards in coffins arranged like letter cases.

Sylvia Görke

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Director
Jean-Marie Straub
Script
Jean-Marie Straub
Cinematographer
Renato Berta, Horst Bever
Editor
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Danièle Huillet
Producer
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Sound
Jeti Grigioni, Harald Lill
Performer
Günter Peter Straschek, Peter Nestler, Danièle Huillet
Retrospective 2021
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That Must Be a Piece of Hitler
Walter Krüttner
A belligerent documentary polemic about Führer tourism at Obersalzberg. The Federal German authorities have prohibited the iniquitous practice but are still cashing in big time.
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That Must Be a Piece of Hitler

Es muß ein Stück vom Hitler sein
Walter Krüttner
Retrospective 2021
Documentary Film
FRG
1963
11 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

Walter Krüttner is considered the only satirist among the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto, which was announced at the West German Short Film Festival in 1962. His film begins like those that the Oberhausen group wanted to put a stop to: with ländler music and a quote by regional poet Ganghofer. “Lord, the ones you love you let fall into this land.” Krüttner observes the tourist hustle and bustle at Obersalzberg: tour guides leading Führer travellers through the Nazi buildings. And Krüttner counts the profits West German authorities make by this. He himself profited by winning the “Silberne Lorbeer” (Silver Laurel) of Deutscher Fernsehfunk (German Television Broadcasting), awarded at the International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week 1963.

Sylvia Görke

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Director
Walter Krüttner
Script
Walter Krüttner
Cinematographer
Fritz Schwennicke
Producer
Cineropa-Filmproduktion
Score
Erich Ferstl