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Producer - Country
Germany
Büchner Tobias
pereSTROIKA - reCONSTRUCTION of a flat
Perestroika means reconstruction. The metaphor coined by Gorbachev for the modernization of society is shown here with the complicated sale of a former Soviet communal flat. Every room of the desolate living space belongs to someone else - a single mother, a family of four, a bachelor, and a woman about to retire. Thus, many individual interests have to be accomodated. The sternly friendly real estate agents are happy to help - not out of altruism, but because capital must be enlarged, profit increased. 52' version also available (Titled: "Russian Monopoly")
Perestroika means reconstruction. The metaphor coined by Gorbachev for the modernization of society is shown here with the complicated sale of a former Soviet communal flat. Every room of the desolate living space belongs to someone else - a single mother, a family of four, a bachelor, and a woman about to retire. Thus, many individual interests have to be accomodated. The sternly friendly real estate agents are happy to help - not out of altruism, but because capital must be enlarged, profit increased. 52' version also available (Titled: "Russian Monopoly")
Family Business
The film shows the life of two families, brought together by an emergency. In a German family, grandma becomes a nursing case. Somewhere in Eastern Europe, a mother leaves her family in order to help the German. A film about the economies of families in the Western and Eastern parts of Europe. Carefully, from both sides, the film delves into the subtle texture of everyday drama, brought on by the situation: the daughter‘s irritated look to her mother, who allows herself to be stroked by the foreign woman; the helpless anger over a bland Polish meal because the ingredients are missing; the unintentional comedy of co-existence with two different languages. It is a trade, but no easy trade. Money and feelings cannot be swapped unopposed. While the German family ‘imports‘ a missing family member and regains some balance, the Polish family loses its centre: the mother.
The film shows the life of two families, brought together by an emergency. In a German family, grandma becomes a nursing case. Somewhere in Eastern Europe, a mother leaves her family in order to help the German. A film about the economies of families in the Western and Eastern parts of Europe. Carefully, from both sides, the film delves into the subtle texture of everyday drama, brought on by the situation: the daughter‘s irritated look to her mother, who allows herself to be stroked by the foreign woman; the helpless anger over a bland Polish meal because the ingredients are missing; the unintentional comedy of co-existence with two different languages. It is a trade, but no easy trade. Money and feelings cannot be swapped unopposed. While the German family ‘imports‘ a missing family member and regains some balance, the Polish family loses its centre: the mother.
Born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Producer Büchner Filmproduktion GbR. Lives in Berlin. From 2007 at zero one film GmbH Berlin. 2006/07 Lecturer at Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. 2005/06 Executive Producer of KURZSCHLUSS at ARTE (weekly programme), for Peter Stockhaus Filmproduktion. 2001 EAVE Graduate. 2000-06 Producer at Peter Stockhaus Filmproduktion GmbH Hamburg. 1998-99 Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. 1999 Stipendiate of Rotary Hamburg. 1996 Founded Büchner Filmproduktion GbR with Christiane Büchner. 1998 Diploma with distinction. 1991-98 Study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. From 1991 travels to Russia. Selected Filmography (author/producer): Five Ways to Dario (documentary, dir. Dario Aguirre, 2010); pereSTROIKA – reCONSTRUCTION of a Flat (documentary, dir. Christiane Büchner, 2008); Tanja Rocks! (documentary, dir. Christiane Büchner, 2008);
Short Order (feature, dir. Anthony Byrne, 2005); Am Tag als Bobby Ewing starb (feature, dir. Lars Jessen, 2005); Roses, Thorns and Dreams (documentary, dir. Tatiana Yankina, Ralf Brings, 2003); Kleine Freiheit (feature, dir. Yüksel Yavuz, 2003); Bungalow (feature, dir. Ulrich Köhler, 2002); Neighbours of the Kremlin (documentary, dir. Christiane Büchner, 2002); You’ll Never Walk Alone (feature, 1996, with Christiane Büchner).
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