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Producer - Country
Germany
Gielnik Arek
One Who Set Forth - Wim Wenders' Early Years
"I am my own history", is how the character Kamikaze responds to the question "who are you?" in Wim Wenders' KINGS OF THE ROAD. Drawing parallels between his early films and his personal biography, this documentary traces Wim Wender's own history, focussing on the director's life prior to his leaving Germany for the USA after his international breakthrough with THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1976/77). In intimate conversations, Wim Wenders talks about his sheltered upbringing in post-war Oberhausen. Excerpts from Wenders' early works illustrate how, time and again, the filmmaker was portraying people he knew and experiences that were authentic. This is just one of the ways in which this documentary sheds new light on the early films of Wim Wenders.
Bastion of Sin
Aysel is a religious Muslim who for many years has led a sheltered life as a housewife and mother in the provincial south of Germany. When she learns that the state theatre in Stuttgart is looking for non-professional actresses for the tragedy "Medea", she sees an opportunity to escape from her tedious everyday existence - and so she auditions for a part. What initially sounds like a little bit of change in Aysel's life soon proves to be a hard challenge to her view of the world. The director Volker Lösch wants to use the boundless freedom offered by theatre to penetrate the at times highly secretive world of Muslim women. Torn between her desire for freedom and her own traditions, Aysel gets entangled in a conflict with her beliefs and is forced to question her life to date.
Being Kosher
Being Kosher is a tragicomic exploration of Jewish purity laws. From kosher food to ritual hygiene, sex by the book to the "not quite kosher" Jewish identity and family history of the filmmaker Ruth Olshan herself - a documentary journey into the author's Eastern European roots and contemporary Jewish life in Germany.
"I am my own history", is how the character Kamikaze responds to the question "who are you?" in Wim Wenders' KINGS OF THE ROAD. Drawing parallels between his early films and his personal biography, this documentary traces Wim Wender's own history, focussing on the director's life prior to his leaving Germany for the USA after his international breakthrough with THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1976/77). In intimate conversations, Wim Wenders talks about his sheltered upbringing in post-war Oberhausen. Excerpts from Wenders' early works illustrate how, time and again, the filmmaker was portraying people he knew and experiences that were authentic. This is just one of the ways in which this documentary sheds new light on the early films of Wim Wenders.
Bastion of Sin
Aysel is a religious Muslim who for many years has led a sheltered life as a housewife and mother in the provincial south of Germany. When she learns that the state theatre in Stuttgart is looking for non-professional actresses for the tragedy "Medea", she sees an opportunity to escape from her tedious everyday existence - and so she auditions for a part. What initially sounds like a little bit of change in Aysel's life soon proves to be a hard challenge to her view of the world. The director Volker Lösch wants to use the boundless freedom offered by theatre to penetrate the at times highly secretive world of Muslim women. Torn between her desire for freedom and her own traditions, Aysel gets entangled in a conflict with her beliefs and is forced to question her life to date.
Being Kosher
Being Kosher is a tragicomic exploration of Jewish purity laws. From kosher food to ritual hygiene, sex by the book to the "not quite kosher" Jewish identity and family history of the filmmaker Ruth Olshan herself - a documentary journey into the author's Eastern European roots and contemporary Jewish life in Germany.
INDI FILM GmbH
Heinrich-Roller-Str. 15
10405 Berlin
Heinrich-Roller-Str. 15
10405 Berlin