Section: Focus

Warschau Frankenstein

Warsaw Frankenstein

Christiane Büchner

Germany, Poland, 2012, 94 Min

Warsaw's inhabitants on a guided tour of their hometown, led by artist and 'tour guide' Boris Sieverts, who arrived from Cologne but a few weeks earlier. By leaving the beaten track behind, he hopes to offer them new insight into a seemingly familiar urban space.

2 Pilots Filmproduction

It's difficult to imagine a more radical programme against the ultra-modern Warsaw familiar to all from feature films on the Polish capital; these 'alternative guided tours' force participants to focus attentions on the city's rougher edges and forgotten suburbs. Sieverts unlocks structures and internal borderlines, studies maps and cuts through fences in order to reveal the web of history and planning, Asian takeaways and gated communities, tent camps and motorway service areas that hold this metropolis together. BW

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour

Drehbuch
Herbert Schwarze

Kamera
Justyna Feicht

Ton
Sławomir Karolak, Tomasz Wieczorek

Schnitt
Nina von Guttenberg

Musik
Aleksander Lason, Kwartet Sląski

Produzent
Harry Floeter, Joerg Siepmann

Produktion
2 Pilots Filmproduction GmbH

Co-Produktion
Wajda Studio Warschau, FUMS, BKM, Goethe-Institut Warschau2 Pilots Filmproduction Harry Floeter Eigelstein 78 50668 Cologne Germany Tel.: +49.221.913 0153 harry@2pilots.de www.2pilots.de

Kontakt
2 Pilots Filmproduction
Harry Floeter
Eigelstein 78
50668 Cologne
Germany
Tel.: +49.221.913 0153
harry@2pilots.de
www.2pilots.de

Christiane Büchner - born 1965 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. She studied Sculpture and Experimental Film at the University of Arts Berlin and later at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She works as a freelance filmmaker of documentary films and directs commissioned productions for several broadcasting stations, and lectures at different universities.

Movies
DAS HAUS DER REGIERUNG (2002, doc)
PERESTROIKA – UMBAU EINER WOHNUNG (2008, doc)
FAMILY BUSINESS (2015, doc)

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