Rudolf Körösi

Documentary research on the traces of a female pensioner, who committed suicide in Berlin in winter 1968.

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In this two-part documentary, Eberhard Fechner reconstructs the story of a class of pupils who passed their A-levels at Berlin's Lessing-Gymnasium in 1937. The starting point for the research is the class photo that gives the film its title. The conversations with the men, which revolve around their lives, bring back memories. However, it becomes clear how many of them have repressed the events of the Nazi era. Apologies, excuses and trivialization of the violence and crimes come out of many mouths.

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The film focuses on the role played by the parental home and vocational school alongside the training center in the life of an apprentice.

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Four hours by boat from the lightship Elbe 1 is the southern entrance and lock of the Kiel Canal. There, in Brunsbüttelkoog, is a seamen's home run by Klara Andresen. This is the main setting of the movie. In the sailors' wives' home, the wives of sailors wait for their return. Klara Andresen not only looks after the concerns of the waiting sailors' wives, but also her brother-in-law Gustav Andresen . Gustav has gone to sea as a ship's cook and now wants to get married. That's why he has placed a marriage announcement and is waiting for the reactions.

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Observational documentary about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company rehearsing throughout the summer of 1967 in New York.

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Workers in the northern German province build a silo.

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Experimental composer John Cage tours Europe with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1966.

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Jazz and its milieu. Klaus Wildenhahn films the Jimmy Smith Trio in New York. With the addition of a white guitarist, Kenny Burrell, the band is in the studio recording the Rolling Stones current hit “Satisfaction”, as a tribute to the successful British Beat musicians, who were themselves inspired by blues and jazz.

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An account of the first European tour of American jazz organist Jimmy Smith and his trio in 1965, replete with backstage footage and music.

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The Investigation (1965) is TV version of a play by German playwright Peter Weiss that depicts the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963–1965.

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Impressions of a party congress of the German social democrat party (SPD) in 1964, featuring politicians Max Brauer, Fritz Erler and Willy Brandt.

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