Synopsis
The views of female employees of large factories in a country that no longer exists. PRIDE & ATTITUDE. A title appropriately settled at the intersection of Kluge/Negt and Jane Austen. The protagonists in Gerd Kroske’s latest survey of the past and the state of affairs in the context and afterlife of East Germany are concerned with both – labour power and questions of women, as in questions about possibilities as a woman to work, participate actively in social life and achieve self-realisation. Or the question of why men take these issues for granted, ultimately regardless of the political system. “The mantle of history blows in favour of those with enough breath to determine the direction of the wind,” states Christa Wolf in a quote at the start of the film. Woman, East Germany, West Germany: Kroske creates an experimental set-up with split screens and asks, “What was once gained – what is lost?” The film presents U-matic footage of female industrial workers in the early 1990s shot by Leipzig’s Kanal X to document real dismantling and layoffs. An archival find. Today, the same women speak again about the loss of their hard-won sovereignty. A multi-channel film. (Barbara Wurm)
team:
Director/Script Gerd Kroske
DoP Anne Misselwitz
Jakobine Motz
Cutter Andreas ZItzmann
Sound Oliver Prasnikar
Music Klaus Janek (Komposition/Kontrabass)
Michael Thieke (Klarinette)
Visual Effects Olaf Voigtländer
Sound Postproduktion K13 Studios Berlin
Re-Recording Mixer Michael Kaczmarek
Sound Designer/Dialogue Editor Pierre Kirchhoff
Colorist Philipp Orgassa
Senior Editor Karin Gerda Schöning
Archiverecherche Achim Beier
Archiv Bürgerbewegung Leipzig e.V.
Assistent Director Lisa M. Böttcher
Edit Suite Support Bernhard KÜbel
In-House Producer Wei-Chung Chen
Postproduktion Basis Berlin Postproduktion
Head of Production Frieda Oberlin
Post Production Producer Andrea Kürschner
DI Engineer Mario Berger
Assistent production manager Lisa M. Böttcher
Paulina M. Ochmann
Film management Karin Fiedler
Production Jens Scherer
Producer Gerd Kroske
Production Realistfilm
Supported by BKM
Medienboard-Berlin-Brandenburg
German Films