Lichter aus dem Hintergrund
Lights from the Background
Director Helga Reidemeister is drawn to Robert Paris' architectural photography and thus chooses as the starting point for this work Potsdamer Platz, at the time subject to mass construction work. Down below, in the underground station closed between 1961 and 1993 due to the wall, he captured the spirit of the times. The construction work going on aboveground doesn't interest him, it's not his city any more. Reidemeister asks questions, as she accompanies Paris on his photographical forays through old Berlin, to his flat, and his friends, all the way to India.
Once a key figure of the East Berlin punk scene, Robert Paris rediscovers a sense of balance with a pilgrimage to India that furthermore offers him new artistic perspectives. KF
DVD | Farbe / colour & s/w / b/w
Helga Reidemeister, Guntram Weber
Lars Barthel
Knut Beulich
Konrad Bauer
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin
Germany
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Helga Reidemeister - born 1940 in Halle (Saale), Germany. She studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts, going on to work as a social worker from 1968-1973 before returning to academia at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin until 1978. She is a lecturer for documentary film at the Baden-Württemberg Academy of Film.
WOHNSTE SOZIAL, HASTE QUAL (1971, doc)
VON WEGEN “SCHICKSAL” (1979, doc)
IM GLANZE DIESES GLÜCKES (1990, doc)
RODINA HEISST HEIMAT (1992, doc)
TEXAS KABUL (2003, doc)
MEIN HERZ SIEHT DIE WELT (2009, doc)
SPLITTER AFGHANISTAN (2015, doc)