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Title Winter adé / ein film des DEFA-Studios für Dokumentarfilme Gruppe Kinobox
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015
©1988

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 113 min.) : sound, black and white
Summary Shortly before GDR's collapse, Helke Misselwitz traveled by train from one end of the country to the other interviewing East German women of different ages and backgrounds. In this documentary masterpiece, women reveal their personal and professional frustrations, hopes and aspirations--and, in doing so, paint a portrait of a changing society. The landscape and architecture of East Germany, filmed in B & W on 35mm by Thomas Plenert, form the background to the stories. This groundbreaking documentary caused a sensation when it was premiered at the 1988 Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival. It undermined the official image of women in the GDR and challenged the East German claim to have achieved gender equality. At the same time, postulating a new independence, women talked about their lives more openly than had ever been filmed before. Ironically, the director was in the US touring with the film on the night when the Berlin Wall fell ... exactly one year after its premiere
Notes Title from title frames
Credits Music, Mario Peters ; camera, Thomas Plenert ; editor, Gudrun Plenert ; dramaturg, Bernd Burkhardt ; sound, Eberhard Pfaff, Ronald Gohlke, Peter Pflughaupt
Cast Helke Misselwitz
Event Originally produced by DEFA Studio for Documentary Films in 1988
Notes In German with English subtitles
Subject Women -- Germany (East) -- Social conditions
Women -- Germany (East) -- Interviews
Working class women -- Germany (East) -- Interviews
Work and family -- Germany (East)
Sex discrimination against women -- Germany (East)
Women -- Social conditions.
Women.
Germany.
Germany (East)
Genre/Form Interviews.
Documentary films.
Drama.
Feature films.
History.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Misselwitz, Helke, film director, screenwriter, on-screen participant.
Plenert, Thomas, director of photography.
Kruschke, Herbert, film producer
Mansee, Peter, film producer
Plenert, Gudrun, screenwriter, editor of moving image work
Peters, Mario, composer (expression)
DEFA. Studio für Dokumentarfilme, production company.
Other Titles Also known as: After winter comes spring
Also known as: Goodbye to winter