Section: Homeland | Domownja | Domizna

Porträt eines Mittelpunktes. Ein Film nach Skizzen von Jurij Brězan

Portrait of a Central Point. A Film Based on the Sketches of Jurij Brě

Konrad Herrmann
GDR, 1976, 23 Min

“This is where I first encountered and understood the tales and songs of my people. This is where I've lived for a thousand years, and everything you see here belongs to me.” A journey of exploration to the world of a small people, to both its past and present, with its ancient traditions and modern music as portrayed in the tales of Jurij Brězan. 

Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv

Farmers at work in the Upper Lusatian uplands, quarry workers, Ralbitz Cemetery, village youths, a wedding procession complete with wedding coordinator (known locally as the Braška) and children, who speak of the future: with a quickly moving spotlight, the film captures the transfer of tradition from generation to generation. Both an impressionistic collage that distinctly bears the signature of Sorbian poet Jurij Brězan, and a poetic historical document that stresses the uniqueness of Sorbian identity without, and this a remarkable fact given the dictates of the time and sponsor of the work, the usual ideological platitudes. GL

Filmformat
DigiBe | Farbe / colour
Kamera
Lutz Körner
Ton
Heinz Kaiser, Werner Philipp
Schnitt
Hanna Fürst
Musik
Jan Bulank
Produzent
Krassimir Peevski
Produktion
Fernsehen der DDR
Co-Produktion
DEFA-Studio Trickfilme Dresden
Kontakt
Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 20
14482 Potsdam
Germany
Tel.: +49.331.581.21 03
dra-babelsberg@dra.de
www.dra.de
Konrad Herrmann

Konrad Herrmann - born 1948 in Bautzen, Germany. He studied directing at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf”, GDR, and switched from East German state television to the DEFA Documentary Film Studio in 1986. Since 1994 Herrmann has been working as a freelance director and author. He is also founder of the HerrmannFilm production company Berlin.

Movies
RUBLAK – LEGENDA WÓ WUMĚRJANEM KRAJU (1983)
ALLTAG DER TRÄUME (1986, short, exp)
LIEB GEORG (1988, doc)
DIE ANGST UND DIE MACHT (1989, doc)
HONECKERS ZERMONIENMEISTER (1991, doc)
LEBEN GEGEN DIE ZEIT (1993, doc, Cottbus 2016)
SIEG ÜBER DEN HASS (1995, doc, Cottbus 2016)
EIN ALTROCKER IN AMT UND WÜRDEN (1998, doc)
IM UNRUHESTAND (2004, doc)
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