Kurt Tetzlaff

Saatfrüchte sollen nicht vermahlen werden

Kurt Tetzlaff

Gisela May, Hilmar Thate

Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic works, including The Weavers' Revolt (1893-97), The Peasant War (1902-08), Woman with the Dead Child (1903) and War (1922-23), her famous series of seven woodcuts.

Erinnerung an eine Landschaft - für Manuela

Kurt Tetzlaff

Kurt Tetzlaff

Some villages are torn down because of open cast mining south of Leipzig. The landscape changes and so do the lives of the people. The four years chronicle - an allegory of the loss of homeland, the destruction of nature in the name of progress and prosperity. Sadness and melancholy remain. Environmental protection, one of the difficult issues in the GDR.

Looping

Kurt Tetzlaff

Hans-Gerd Sonnenburg, Dieter Franke

The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness. In the explosion of a carbide furnace in operation, a colleague is killed.

Die drei anderen Jahreszeiten

Kurt Tetzlaff

Auf einem Bahnsteig

Kurt Tetzlaff

Im Durchgang - Protokoll für das Gedächtnis

Kurt Tetzlaff

Revolution and resignation within the changes at the end of the GDR.

Spring, wenn du kannst

Kurt Tetzlaff

In short sequences of images pointedly set to music by Louis Armstrong, the film follows the pleasurable triumph of young life over the obstacles of setting out into the world. As short as the film is and as curious its contents, the chequered story of its working and release titles is just as interesting. In 1987, the industry magazine “Film und Fernsehen” presented it simply as “A DEFA film by”. The text printed there ends with a sentence in brackets: (And many a viewer may marvel at the courage of the little ducklings and feel encouraged themselves.)

Es genügt nicht, 18 zu sein

Kurt Tetzlaff

Manfred Krug

Documentary about young workers in East Germany.

Im Übergang – Protokoll einer Hoffnung

Kurt Tetzlaff

Once again Kurt Tetzlaff portrays Alexander, who in 1990 works as a nurse and is active in the “Action Reconciliation”. The sense of departure of the autumn of 1989 slowly gives way to disappointments about the outcome of the People’s Chamber elections in 1990, the currency reform and the Unification Treaty. The political and social changes took place at a rapid pace that many found hard to follow. The sense of community that carried people through 1989 is fading. “Now it’s every man for himself”, Alexander states. He has no use for capitalism: “I feel just as lied to and cheated as before.” Resignation spreads.