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Founded in 2001, the INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (IDF) is a non-profit training and networking centre based in Prague, Czech Republic, focused on the support of East European documentary films and their wider promotion. Our activities support filmmakers through all stages of completion – development, funding, production, post-production, and distribution. We aim at individual filmmakers (tailored consultations), groups of carefully selected professionals with projects or films (Ex Oriente Film, East European Forum, East Silver, Doc Launch, etc.), broader professional community (East Doc Platform), as well as the general public (portal www.DOKweb.net). We closely work with key int. festivals, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents, markets, or training initiatives and serve as the GATEWAY TO EAST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM.

Director
Gerd Kroske
Producer
Heino Deckert
Co Producer
Gerd Kroske
Production company
ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH ...
Director of photography
Susanne Schüle
Editor
Karin Gerda Schöning
IDF Events
2008 East Silver

Wolli in Paradise

Wollils Paradies, Germany, 2007, 60 min, Digi Beta, Social Issues

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The place: the outskirts of Hamburg, a flat, 2 rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom. The time: one day and the passing night. Wolfgang "Wolli" Köhler, former porn-cinema and brothel founder turned poet and illustrator, lives here with his wife, Linda. Scenes of cohabitation. Scenes of a life together. Reminiscences of an existence that has led them from Waldheim in Saxony to St. Pauli in Hamburg. Insights into the abject wretchedness of the sex industry. The underworld of covert backyard meetings before the coming of AIDS. Prejudices are undermined, preconceptions challenged. Wolli takes a trip down his own personal "memory lane."

Director:

Gerd Kroske

Producer:

Heino Deckert

Co Producer:

Gerd Kroske

Director of photography:

Susanne Schüle

Editor:

Karin Gerda Schöning

Music:

Klaus Janek