Joachim Tomaschewsky
1919 - 2019Der Idiot
Frank Castorf
Martin Wuttke, Bernhard Schütz
Unites grotesque elements, tempo, quiet dream sequences, the thrill of a detective story, but above all, he manages to capture the temperature of an actor ensemble that throws itself into the world of Dostoyevsky with immense pleasure and passion.
Der Idiot
Schlingensief – In das Schweigen hineinschreien
Bettina Böhler
Christoph Schlingensief, Tilda Swinton
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
The Architects
Peter Kahane
Kurt Naumann, Rita Feldmeier
The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with. This way, he reunites with former colleagues and friends - most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement. Together, they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic. However, their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors. As frustration grows, Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his family-life: his wife Wanda wants to leave for West-Germany.
The Architects
Dämonen
Frank Castorf
Kathrin Angerer, Hendrik Arnst
In the last house just behind the western borders of Russia, between Paris/Texas and Korleput/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cindy Sherman, Dogma 95 and Duma 2000, Frank Castorf directs his virst video production "Dämonen" ("Demons") as a sort of post-Soviet-panslavistic panopticon in his own dramaturgy based on Dostojewski's "Demons" and Camus' "The Posessed". All that in set designer Bert Neumann's industrial-designed bungalow (with swimming pool) built onto forbidding landscape.
Demons
Beresina oder die letzten Tage der Schweiz
Daniel Schmid
Elena Panova, Geraldine Chaplin
A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss life has more to do with Heidi and old movies set in the Alps than reality.
Beresina
12 Uhr mittags kommt der Boss
Siegfried Hartmann
Peter Borgelt, Rolf Herricht
Фильм, как и многие другие детективы, начинается с дорожного происшествия. В автокатастрофе погибает водитель и сгорает машина. Полиции зацепиться не за что, да и незачем, если бы не одно "но"... На следующий день произошло нападение на охранника автостоянки, куда отбуксировали полусгоревшую машину. Так начинается противостояние полиции с бандой контрабандистов золотом (или, по нашему, с "расхитителями социалистической собственности"), во главе которой стоит неуловимый и хитроумный босс. Немного стрельбы, немного погони, чуток драк. Всё как полагается. Зло будет наказано.
The boss will come at 12 o'clock