28th International Forum of New Cinema
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The Big Wide World
Andreas Voigt
Deutschland 1997

Produktion/production company: A Jour
Straße 299, Nr. 23
12559 Berlin
Tel.: (49-30) 65880811, Fax: 65880813
Buch/screenplay: Andreas Voigt
Kamera/cinematography: Sebastian Richter, Rainer M. Schulz
Ton/sound: Patric Stanislawski
Schnitt/editor: Angela Wendt

Format: 35mm, 1:1.37, Farbe/colour
Länge/running time: 88 Minuten/minutes


Akademie der Künste   Mi 18.2.

''Leipzig, die große Stadt im Osten Deutschlands. Den ersten Film drehen wir hier 1986. Wir kehren immer wieder nach Leipzig zurück. Fünf Filme entstehen. Mehr als zehn Jahre sind vergangen. Vieles ist geschehen: der Fall der Mauer, das Ende der DDR, die deutsche Einheit, der neue Alltag. Lebensgeschichten und Schicksale. Bilder von heute und damals.'' Andreas Voigt ''Leipzig is the largest town in east Germany. We made the first of our series of documentaries here in 1986 - and kept coming back. Since then, five more films have been made, more than ten years have passed and so much has happened. Over the years, we've followed the lives of Sylvia and Dietmar, Papa, Renate and a handful of others; the fall of the wall and the aftermath, the elections, the currency union, the ability to travel at will wherever and whenever, the end of the GDR, German reunification and the time that followed. In The Big Wide World, the latest and probably the last film in the series, we meet them all one more time to hear their stories and dreams. A slice of life - as it was then, and as it is now.'' Andreas Voigt

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