Status and Terrain (2019)

ALL 07/13/2019 (de) Documentary 120 Min
  • Release
    07/13/2019
  • Production
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  • Original title
    Zustand und Gelände
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
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Overview

When first viewing Zustand und Gelände, we might be under the impression it belongs to a well-known tradition of historical documentaries. Long shots, extremely slow all-round views, steady panning: the image patiently describes a series of urban sites and landscapes of the former German Democratic Republic (Saxony and Thuringia). Through highly elaborate arrangements of archives from different sources (police reports, survivors’ testimonies, administrative correspondence, and more), an o -screen voice establishes what these places set the stage for in March 1933: the Nazi concentration system and an elimination regime of all political opposition. Especially noteworthy, in this film, is the extremely attentive channelling towards still unknown times and geographies of the horror Hitler inflicted on the first victims: people with sympathies for communism, activists, trade unionists, socio-democratic journalists, and so on.

  1. Ute Adamczewski

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Producer



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Status and Terrain (2019) 120 Min

ALL 07/13/2019 (de)
Documentary
  • Release 07/13/2019
  • Production
  • Original title Zustand und Gelände
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

When first viewing Zustand und Gelände, we might be under the impression it belongs to a well-known tradition of historical documentaries. Long shots, extremely slow all-round views, steady panning: the image patiently describes a series of urban sites and landscapes of the former German Democratic Republic (Saxony and Thuringia). Through highly elaborate arrangements of archives from different sources (police reports, survivors’ testimonies, administrative correspondence, and more), an o -screen voice establishes what these places set the stage for in March 1933: the Nazi concentration system and an elimination regime of all political opposition. Especially noteworthy, in this film, is the extremely attentive channelling towards still unknown times and geographies of the horror Hitler inflicted on the first victims: people with sympathies for communism, activists, trade unionists, socio-democratic journalists, and so on.

  1. Ute Adamczewski

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Ute Adamczewski

    Editor

  4. Producer