Jürgen Böttcher Movies
- 1990

La Villette
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Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance...
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- 1970

Gezeiten
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A young officer suffers under his ambitious wife, who is determined to make a captain out of him. Meanwhile, ship's cook Andresen becomes a father...
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- 1992

Sammelsurium - Ein ostelbischer Kulturfilm
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- 1966

Born in '45
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Originally banned in 1966, East German director Jürgen Böttcher's tale of love and disillusionment among two newlyweds attempting to...
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- 1960

Necessary Years of Learning
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Böttcher made his graduation film about young people who had become delinquent in a youth work yard in Thuringia. Already here a striking...
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- 2004

Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel
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Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is...
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- 1977

In the Lohm Valley
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Sculptor Makolies is filmed working on a sculpture in the middle of a quarry in Swiss Saxony. The quarry workers go about their work around him. Both...
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- 1987

The Kitchen
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This documentary follows a group of women on a typical workday as they prepare meals for a dockyard in Rostock. The viewer never learns their names -...
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- 1977

Grosskochberg - Public Landscape Gardens
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Kochberg Castle was once owned by the von Stein family and Goethe visited Charlotte von Stein there several times. On the occasion of the "1000 years...
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- 2021

Strawalde - Ein Leben in Bildern
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Documentary accompanies the great DEFA film director and painter Jürgen Böttcher, alias Strawalde, detail through his biographical and...
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- 1985

A Brief Visit with Hermann Glöckner
A Brief Visit with Hermann Glöckner01985HD
This film portraits the artist and model-builder Hermann Gloeckner, who was born in Dresden in 1889. Even at the age of 96 he is still drawing with...
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- 1977

1000 Years Weimar
1000 Years Weimar01977HD
Documentary on the 1000-year-old town of Weimar. The film presents an example of the victory of humanist traditions over nazi brutality.
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- 1968

A Representative
A Representative01968HD
A black-and-white documentary film about the large housing estate "Lütten Klein" in the northwest of Rostock in June 1968. On the basis of the...
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- 1990

The Wall
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A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the...
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- 1981

Postcards II; Venus after Giorgione
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Venus after Giorgione is the the second part of the "Over Paintings" (Uebermalungen) trilogy by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher)....
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- 1981

Postcards III; Woman at the Clavichord
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With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am...
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- 1988

In Georgia
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Impressionistic East German documentary filmed mainly in the Georgian countryside in 1986-1987. The director, a painter, wanted to see if similar...
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- 1990

Berlin 1990
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Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 1990, Chris Marker shot this passionate...
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- 1979

Martha
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Martha Bieder is the last rubble-woman in Berlin Rummelsburg. Every day, rain or shine, she stands at the conveyor belt - as she has for decades -...
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- 1968

Zoo Film
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This black and white documentary film reports from the Berlin Zoo, located in the Friedrichsfelde district of the Lichtenberg district, was opened in...
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