Section: Homeland | Domownja | Domizna

Kontinent Hoffnung

Continent of Hope

Konrad Herrmann
GDR, 1978, 31 Min

Sorbian artist Heinrich Theodor Wehle (1778-1805) is widely regarded as one of the most eminent landscape painters of his time, and in fact often finds himself compared with the great Caspar David Friedrich. Threading an associative patchwork quilt of imagery, short descriptive passages and literary excerpts this films paints a portrait of the life of a highly driven individual who died too soon.

Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv

It was the “desire to discover an unknown continent of hope” that drove him, a clergyman's son from Upper Lusatia, on his travels around the world: from Görlitz to Dessau, and on to Russia, the Caucasus and Persia. A formative influence was and remained however the artist childhood paintings, full of symbolism, the wonders of the Lusatian countryside and the mythology of Sorbian culture. How do the cultures of bygone times, as well as the subconscious, shape the artistic process?

Questions that Konrad Herrmann raises in this bold, intense montage of fragments of Wehle's art and thoughts. In the absence of answers all that remains are the inner conflicts of an unjustly forgotten artist. GL

Filmformat
DigiBe | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Alfred Krautz, Lutz Körner, Konrad Herrmann
Kamera
Lutz Körner
Musik
Peter Gotthardt
Darsteller
Manfred Schulz, Majka Kowarjec, Marja Ulbrichec
Produzent
Renate Winter
Produktion
Fernsehen der DDR
Kontakt
Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv
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14482 Potsdam
Germany
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Konrad Herrmann

Konrad Herrmann - born 1948 in Bautzen, Germany. He studied directing at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf”, GDR, and switched from East German state television to the DEFA Documentary Film Studio in 1986. Since 1994 Herrmann has been working as a freelance director and author. He is also founder of the HerrmannFilm production company Berlin.

Movies
RUBLAK – LEGENDA WÓ WUMĚRJANEM KRAJU (1983)
ALLTAG DER TRÄUME (1986, short, exp)
LIEB GEORG (1988, doc)
DIE ANGST UND DIE MACHT (1989, doc)
HONECKERS ZERMONIENMEISTER (1991, doc)
LEBEN GEGEN DIE ZEIT (1993, doc, Cottbus 2016)
SIEG ÜBER DEN HASS (1995, doc, Cottbus 2016)
EIN ALTROCKER IN AMT UND WÜRDEN (1998, doc)
IM UNRUHESTAND (2004, doc)

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