Section: Homeland | Domownja | Domizna

Sieg über den Hass. Ein schwarzer Geschäftsmann in Hoyerswerda

Overcoming Hatred. A Black Businessman in Hoyerswerda

Konrad Herrmann
Germany, 1995, 30 Min

Ernesto Rafael Felice left his native Mozambique to study in East Germany, after which he ended up as a contract worker in Hoyerswerda, Bautzen. There he experienced first-hand the xenophobic riots of 1991, after which the majority of his fellow countrymen and women left the city. Felice persevered however, set up a business and started a family. This is his story.

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

You'd be hard pushed to claim the locals have outgrown the animosity, they simply like a bargain. As a result they grudgingly accept the presence of a dark-skinned fellow citizen in their midst. He in turn skilfully takes advantage of the town's proximity to Poland and the Czech Republic in order to construct a business empire of his own, as he provides the inhabitants of run-down, post-industrial Hoyerswerda with affordable furniture.

Once again Konrad Herrmann displays his eye for a story, this TV production not only narrating the life and times of a remarkable jack of all trades, but also a city incapable of making a break with its troubled past. GL

Filmformat
DVD | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Konrad Herrmann
Kamera
Bertram Hetze
Schnitt
Evelyn Kuhnert
Produzent
Dirk Schwarzer
Produktion
MDR
Kontakt
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
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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)
EIN ALTROCKER IN AMT UND WÜRDEN (1998, doc)
IM UNRUHESTAND (2004, doc)

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