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Der Elefant von Hoyerswerda

THe Elephant from Hoyerswerda

Christian Lehmann
GDR, 1959, 13 Min

A cinematic study of everyday life on a Hoyerswerda construction site, originally thought lost, only to be rediscovered in 2014.

Filmuniversität Babelsberg „Konrad Wolf"

The silent, precisely framed black and white footage provided early evidence of the evolving signature style of pioneering director of photography Christian Lehmann, an approach which stood in strong contrast to the pathos-saturated film industry of the time. GL

Filmformat
DCP | s/w / b/w
Kamera
Christian Lehmann
Produktion
Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst
Kontakt
Filmuniversität Babelsberg „Konrad Wolf"
Cristina Marx
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg
Germany
Tel.: +49.331.620.25 64
c.marx@filmuniversitaet.de
www.filmuniversitaet.de

Christian Lehmann - born in Halbau (nowadays Iłowa, Poland). He initially studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig before he started to study at the Academy of Film and Television Potsdam-Babelsberg in 1953. At the DEFA-Studios of documentary films he collaborated with influential directors and developed a unique style of cinematography.

Movies
BAUERNREGEL (1972, short, doc)
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