Engelchen
Little Angel
Ostkreuz, Berlin, a rear courtyard, two steps. The trains almost pass through her bedroom, outside the usual faces bluster in the yard. Ramona lives alone; she's bashful, vulnerable, withdrawn. Then she encounters Andrzej; he's attentive, affectionate, protective. His appearance speeds up the transition from girl to woman: she loves, lives and ultimately ends up pregnant. Andrzej has a wife in Poland however and Ramona loses the baby; her sense of disappointment couldn't be greater, thus in order to ensure the fulfilment of her dream she abducts an infant. With a gentle sense of persuasion Misselwitz depicts the life of a woman stifled by the dissonance between dream and reality. Featuring a stellar performance from the unforgettable Susanne Lothar.
35mm | Farbe / colour
Helke Misselwitz
Thomas Plenert
Rainer Haase
Lothar Holler
Susanne Lothar, Cesary Pazura, Katrin Angerer, Ben Becker, Sophie Rois, Herbert Fritsch, Luise Wolfram, Heide Kipp, Ulrich Mühe
Thomas Wilkening Filmgesellschaft mbH
August-Bebel-Str. 26-53
14482 Potsdam
Germany
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Helke Misselwitz - born 1947 in Zwickau, GDR. After graduating from school and qualifying as a carpenter she served an apprenticeship as a physiotherapist. Worked for nine years as producer and assistant directorforyouth television in Eastern Germany. Studied directing from 1978-82 at the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" (HFF) Potsdam-Babelsberg.
Later worked for the "Sophienstrasse 8" gallery and the Mitropa catering company in Berlin-Lichtenberg. After graduating she took up employment as a freelance author and director of documentary films for the state-owned DEFA film studio. From 1985-88 Misselwitz attended Heiner Carow's master class at the Academy of Arts in East Berlin. Permanent employment at the DEFA studio for documentary film in Berlin from in 1988-91. She became a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Arts in 1991. Currently based in Berlin, she has worked as professor for directing at the HFF since 1997.
WINTERBILDER (1979, doc, short)
VERSTECKEN (1979, short)
EIN LEBEN (1980, doc)
HAUS. FRAUEN. (1981, short)
DIE FIDELE BÄCKERIN (1982)
HAUS (1983), Beitrag zur DEFA Kinobox 61,4
AKTFOTOGRAFIE - Z.B. GUNDULA SCHULZE (1983, doc, short)
STILLEBEN. EINE REISE ZU DEN DINGEN (1984, doc)
TANGO (1984), Beitrag zur DEFA Kinobox 40,4
35 FOTOS (1984), Beitrag zur DEFA Kinobox 39,1
TANGOTRAUM (1985, doc, short)
WINTER ADÉ (1988, doc)
WER FÜRCHTET SICH VORM SCHWARZEN MANN (1989, doc)
SPERRMÜLL (1990, doc)
WAS HAST’N GEMACHT, GESTERN? (1990, TV), Beitrag zu aspekte-Sendung „Tugend Besonnenheit“
RÄUME (1990), Beitrag „Ost-Berlin“ für Magazin „Nova“, zusammen mit Petra Tschörtner
SASSNITZ (1991), Beitrag ARD-Sendung „Der erste Sommer“
HERZSPRUNG (1992)
SCHÖNES FRÄULEIN, DARF ICH’S WAGEN? (1993, doc)
LEBEN EIN TRAUM (1994, doc, video)
MEINE LIEBE, DEINE LIEBE (1995, doc)
ENGELCHEN (1996)
OSKAR, KARLI UND DER MANN MIT DER ZIGARRE, Beitrag zu „Das 7. Jahr – Ansichten zur Lage der Nation (1997, doc, video)
FREMDE ODER / OBCA ODRA (2001, doc)
QUARTIER DER ILLUSIONEN (2003, doc, video)