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DIE FREIHEIT DER BÄUME

THE FREEDOM OF THE TREES

Bernhard Sallmann

Germany, 2003, 25 Min

The Pückler-Park Bad Muskau from dawn to dusk. Associative images and quotations from Hermann von Pückler-Muskau's "Suggestions for Landscape Gardening” merge into a meditative contemplation about the art of landscape design.

Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

The camera captures breath-taking tableaux, details of trees and the river as well as Pückler's "visual axis" time and again while moving through the park like a stroller. The film explores – often on the soundtrack – the traces of human intervention in the landscape. Beauty and destruction lie close together – and so the great prince speaks of the "terrible power of man". An anticipation of further films by Bernhard Sallmann in Lusatia and a parable of the magic and tragedy of the region. GL

Filmformat
Digi Beta | Dok. | Farbe / Colour

Drehbuch
Bernhard Sallmann

Kamera
Ines Thomsen

Ton
Sanra Bittner, Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer

Schnitt
Bernhard Sallmann

Darsteller
Sprecher: Bernhard Sallmann, Jaron Löwenberg

Produzent
D. Engelhardt

Produktion
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

Kontakt
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Cristina Marx
Marlene -Dietrich-Allee 11
14482 Potsdam
Germany
+49 331 62 02 564
c.marx@filmuniversitaet.de
www.filmuniversitaet.de

Bernhard Sallmann - born in 1967 in Linz, Austria. He first graduated in journalism, German philology and sociology in Salzburg and Berlin. He then received his diploma in film and television directing from the former HFF "Konrad Wolf" (today Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF). He is a freelance filmmaker and known for his films, which defy any conventions.

Movies
BERLIN NEUKÖLLN (2001, doc)
40 KM BRANDENBURG (2002, doc)
DAS SCHLECHTE FELD (2011, doc)
FASTENTUCH 1472 (2015, doc)
ODERLAND. FONTANE (2016, doc)

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