Harry Hornig

Betrifft: Fabrikation

East German short documentary

Dearest Dziodzio

"Dearest Dziodzio" was filmed using quotes from letters Rosa Luxemburg wrote to her lover, the revolutionary labor leader Leo Jogiches, during her stays in Poland, Germany, France and Switzerland in the years 1893-1905. With historical photo and film montages, mixed with newly shot material, the film tries to give an insight into the life problems, the thoughts and feelings of Rosa Luxemburg. The film is enriched by the recordings of the original letters, which are read out by the director, as well as by drawings, watercolors and herbaria by Rosa Luxemburg.

Wer die Erde liebt

A documentary dedicated to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973.

Ewa - Ein Mädchen aus Witunia

This black and white documentary follows Ewa from Witunia and other girls from Poland, who work at Kabelwerk Oberspreee in Berlin since about a year. The movie tries to find out how the young women feel living in the GDR, working with their german colleagues. Ewa is critical and tries to fight widely spread prejudices about Polish and German people alike and she also speaks out about injustices at work.

Ewa - Ein Mädchen aus Witunia

This black and white documentary follows Ewa from Witunia and other girls from Poland, who work at Kabelwerk Oberspreee in Berlin since about a year. The movie tries to find out how the young women feel living in the GDR, working with their german colleagues. Ewa is critical and tries to fight widely spread prejudices about Polish and German people alike and she also speaks out about injustices at work.

Hint from a Neighbor

A polemical report. "Way to the neighbors" is the motto of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. In their "Remarks on the Oberhausen 66 Film Festival," the GDR documentarians Gerhard Scheumann and Walter Heynowski take the competition selection to task: They see formal experiments as "excesses on the big screen" and instead of political themes, they discover a "surge of perversity." After her own film "Kommando 52" was rejected by the festival, a criminal complaint by the GDR lawyer Friedrich-Karl Kaul against the mercenary and commander "Kongo-Müller" is the focus of a press conference. The refusal of a cinema owner to show the film was a "hint from the neighbors", the neighboring public order office, and therefore state censorship in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Eine Nacht wie jede andere

Black and white short documentary about the patrol of the EMW radio car "Toni 14" of the Berlin police.