A film about the Schillerplatz in Dresden. Those from Blasewitz, someone from Loschwitz and other curious names. The film director is on the search for people from his childhood, in the place of his childhood.
The rhythm of a place – film-images related to a musical composition that were composed specially for the scenes /stories of this film evoke the memories, in which the locations are the excuse to tell about them. In a time shortly after the German reunification.
“The movie is a good school of sight .... an evocative portrait of a neighborhood ...”
Saxon newspaper
“ ... he creates a monument to Schillerplatz and the very ordinary people...”
Dresden Latest News
A theatrical documentary and feature film by Wolfgang H Scholz
with Lukas Hänel Genre: Drama Length 93 min. Format 1.66:1 35 mm, Color + B/W Language German
with Lukas Hänel Genre: Drama Length 93 min. Format 1.66:1 35 mm, Color + B/W Language German
1994
Contributors:
Felix Hänel (2. Boy)
Heidrun Herrmann (artist's apartment Herrmann)
Günther Jakob (police officer)
Matthias Griebel (The Loschwitzer)
Ernst Hirsch (Karl-Emil-Scherz archive)
Kurt Michael Fendler (delicatessen Fendler)
Christoph Ziegenbalk (tobacco products)
Heinz and Rosemarie Scholz (Scholz woodturning shop)
Arnfried and Evelin Schubert (Schubert model railway)
Andreas Schubert (glasses tank)
Heinz and Ursula Dunger (Dunger umbrella)
Hildegard Thümmel (Bierritze standing beer hall)
Eva Plötze (Plötze hardware store)
Roland and Ilse Rindfleisch (painter Rindfleisch)
Eva-Maria Wolff (leather-goods-Näter)
Hildegard Fromhold ("Fitzel-Fatzel" lived in her flat)
Sigrid Polke (saleswoman at Fendler)
Axel Walther (tram driver)
Stefan Dietze and Christoph Schinke (musicians, Cafe Toscana)
Director: Wolfgang H Scholz
Book: Wolfgang H Scholz
Camera: Andreas Frowein
Camera assistant: Gert Jäckel
Editing: Andrea Feige
Light: Gert Jäckel
Sound: Werner Philipp
Mixture: Franz Bielefeld (Peter Senkel)
Music composition: Rainer Promnitz
Music recording: Rainer Promnitz with Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Musicians: Steffen Gaitzsch, violin
Karl Jungnickel, drums
Nora Koch, harp
Holger Naumann, viola
Rainer Promnitz, cello
Dittmar Trebeljahr, clarinet/sax.
Speaker: Wolfgang Scholz
Recording manager: Helga-Maria Uhlig
Producer: Wolfgang H Scholz
Production: Sic! Film Production GmbH, Munich
Co-producer: SWF, Baden-Baden
Funding: Ministry of Science and Art Saxony and
Foundation for Art and Culture of the Stadtsparkasse Dresden
+ MDR for an extra version of 45 minutes "Schillerplatz"
Performances:
Leonhardi Museum, Dresden, 1994
Cinema premiere: June 1994, Schauburg, Dresden
International Documentary Film Festival Munich 1995
International Documentary Film Festival Leipzig 1995
TV performance: SWF (June 1995) + MDR (5 x from 1995 to 1997)
Cinema Retrospective Mexico City: 2016 Filmotek UNAM
Museum Chopo, Mexico City, 2017
The Federal Film Archive Berlin and
the Saxon State Library Dresden has had the film in its archive since 2017.
