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Coal Country Song. Gundermann
Coal Country Song. Gundermann
Coal Country Song. Gundermann
Coal Country Song. Gundermann
Coal Country Song. Gundermann
Coal Country Song. Gundermann
Coal Country Song. Gundermann
Coal Country Song. Gundermann
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Coal Country Song. Gundermann
Synopsis
"My swing is in an enchanted garden, behind the railway embankment. Up in the air, on my swing, I see the trains, squeaking past day and night shedding black dust. They come out of the huge holes that gape between our villages. As a child, I think the whole world looks like this: Holes, with villages between, my swing in the middle. And the trains. They're coal trains."Gerhard Gundermann (1955–1998), singer-songwriter, poet and excavator operator in the Lusatian brown coal mines. In this region, global problems are condensed on a local level as if by a burning glass – from structural change to climate crisis. Mostly unpublished archive material and Gundermann’s songs enter into a dialogue with observations and conversations in his 'district', accompanied by the voice-over of the director, who is no less deeply rooted in the coal mining district. Home and its destruction through strip mining, utopian ideas and the question of individual responsibility run through the songs, as do their consequences for gainful employment and the environment at the end of the industrial age. And they are more topical than ever today: "Where my swing stood, then your digger, is now a lake." (DOK Leipzig, Frederik Lang)
Cast & Crew
- DirectorGrit Lemke
- Producer
- Director of photographyUwe Mann (BvK)
- Line producer
- Editor (Cut)
- Sound
- Compositing
- otherTill Beckmann (Color Correction)
Festivals/awards
2019DOK Leipzig
Dokfest Kassel
FF Cottbus
Trieste Film Festival
2020
Internationales Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund|Köln
Production Company
Cast & Crew
Grit LemkeGregor Streiber
Uwe Mann (BvK)
Heribert Schneiders
Sven Kulik
Oliver Prasnikar
Urs Hauck
Till Beckmann (Color Correction)
