Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

Der Partisan

The Partisan

Jan Ralske

Germany, 1993, 12 Min

An ironic take on life in the Berlin district of Marzahn. Constructed in a bygone era for industrialised housing that, it was hoped, would serve as a home to socialism's “new man”, filmmaker Jan Ralske captured the district on film in the early nineties as a means of asking: what is Marzahn today? Three jobless locals provide the answers.

Three friends gather on a plateau in Marzahn, the view dominated by East Berlin's pre-fabricated tower blocks. They discuss animatedly, take a swig of beer and then fall into silence. The words have a certain eloquence; “the place you come from doesn't exist anymore. Where you thought you were you going, it never even existed.” Or take: “the West's tenancy laws are nothing but a form of class struggle!” Idiosyncratic though the style might be, the trio nevertheless display a remarkable ease with words. KF

Filmformat
35 mm | Farbe / colour & s/w / b/w

Drehbuch
Jan Ralske

Kamera
Maureen Herzfeld-Bargas, Bernd Löhr

Ton
Christian Frosch, Cheol-Mean Whang

Schnitt
Yvonne Loquens

Musik
Lars Rudolph, Stan Red Fox

Darsteller
Lars Rudolph, Michael Freerix, Uwe Meyer

Produktion
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH

Kontakt
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin
Germany
Tel.: +49.30.300.90 30
info@deutsche-kinemathek.de
www.deutsche-kinemathek.de

Jan Ralske - born 1959 in Wichita County, USA. In the 1980s he studied at Rhode Island School of Design, USA, and German philology at the Wilhelm Pieck University, Rostock, GDR. In 1996 he graduated in directing from the German Film and Television Academy Berlin and has since been working as both editor and director.

Movies
ICH ARBEITE ALLES AB ... EHRENWORT! (1988, short)
DER DURCHGANG (1989, short)
NICHT BESIEGT (1990, short)
VERGANGEN, VERGESSEN, VORÜBER (1994, short)
NOT A LOVE SONG (1997)
BADOLATO: HOFFEN AUF EIN WUNDER (2001)

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