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Engelbecken

2015

A quiet, essayistic documentary that asks you to think about division and memory rather than feel a story unfold.

Directed by
Gamma Bak, Steffen Reck
Genres
Documentary
Overview
The Engelbecken is not just a normal place between the Berlin districts of Kreuzberg and Mitte, but also symbolic, a kind of metaphor: for the Wall that runs through the whole of Berlin and the deadly landscape that surrounds it, the death strip. It is a place of division, of death, of limitation and confinement. In their essay film, Gamma Bak and Steffen Reck look at the oppositional subculture in Prenzlauer Berg/East Berlin.

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Directed by
Gamma Bak, Steffen Reck
Genres
Documentary
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    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • isolation
    • memory
    • politics
    • art
    • death
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Action0
    Horror1
    Humour1
    Realism9
    Romance0
    Tension3
    Darkness6
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight6

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    Genres
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    Directed by
    Gamma Bak, Steffen Reck
    Country
    Germany

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