Section: Homeland | Domownja | Domizna

GAŽ WĚTŠYK DUJO

AND TRUTH UPRISES

Toni Bruk

GDR, 1984, 17 Min

Poetic portrait of Mina Witkojc, 1893-1975, innkeeper's daughter from Burg, day labourer, maid, persecuted by National Socialism, fighter for emancipation, editor, poet and one of the most important voices of the Wendish language.

Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek

The melancholic landscape of the Spreewald and its reflection in the natural metaphors of Mina Witkojc's poetry form the framework of an atmospheric collage of pictures, poems, memories of companions and contemporary witnesses, historical documents and archive material. The collage simultaneously tells of exclusion and discrimination, of the oppression of a minority and the search for one's own identity, of the importance of one's mother tongue and the power of poetry. GL

Filmformat
35 mm | Doc. | Farbe / Colour

Drehbuch
Peter Jannasch, Gerat Hendrich, Toni Bruk

Kamera
Michael Börner

Ton
Heinz Kaiser

Schnitt
Heidrun Sünderhauf

Musik
Hans Thiemann

Produktion
DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme (Produktionsgruppe Sorbischer Film)

Kontakt
Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin
Germany
+49 30 300 903 0
info@deutsche-kinemathek.de
www.deutsche-kinemathek.de

Toni Bruk - born in 1947, he studied literature at the University of Leipzig and the Charles University in Prague. From 1980 to 1990 director at the DEFA Studio in Dresden. Since 1991 director and studio manager at SORABIA Film Studio Bautzen/Budyšin. He has made numerous features, TV and documentary films, often dealing with Sorbian history and culture.

Movies
WENN SPUREN SICHTBAR WERDEN (1983, doc, short)
UNRUHE (1985, doc, short)
VOM MALER MIT DEM LINDENBLATT (1986, doc, short, FFC 2017)
JASNA A KRASNA (1999)
DREI RINGE (2002, FFC 2006)
MYTHOS KRABAT (2006, TV)

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