Section: Homeland | Domownja | Domizna

RHINLAND. FONTANE

Bernhard Sallmann

Germany, 2017, 67 Min

Bernhard Sallmann is working on a film project in several parts dedicated to Theodor Fontane and his “Ramblings through Brandenburg”. RHINLAND. FONTANE is the second part and follows ODERLAND. FONTANE. The filmmaker’s interest is historic on the one hand, which emerges in the precise recital of passages from Fontane’s book “Die Grafschaft Ruppin” (Ruppin County): peat cutters’ working conditions, Prussian militarism, capitalist speculators, the author’s self-reflections or the drastic experience of the Thirty Years’ War. On the other hand, Sallman’s concept of a strict registry of places and landscapes in long, static shots with location sound is indebted only to the present day: long distance roads crisscross a marshy landscape; secluded lakes open up in the beech forest.

Another great rambler, Georg Forster, once reflected on his enthusiasm for the observation of the presence and underlying history of landscapes: “In the end one doesn’t have more than what falls through these two openings of the pupils to stimulate the vibrations of the brain. We have no other way of experiencing the world and its nature.” Experiencing the world and its nature is Sallmann’s intention, too. Ralph Eue, source: Catalogue DOK Leipzig

Filmformat
DCP | doc. | Farbe / Colour

Drehbuch
Bernhard Sallmann

Kamera
Bernhard Sallmann

Ton
Klaus Barm

Schnitt
Christoph Krüger

Produzent
Bernhard Sallmann

Produktion
Bernhard Sallmann

Kontakt
Bernhard Sallmann Schöneweiderstr. 19
12055 Berlin
030.6857675
bernhard.sallmann@berlin.de

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Movies
DIE FREIHEIT DER BÄUME (2003, short, doc, FFC 2018)
DIE LAUSITZ 20 X 90 (2004, short, doc, FFC 2018)
TRÄUME DER LAUSITZ (2009, FFC 2018)

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