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Gundi Gundermann

1983 · 75 min

A quiet, plain-spoken portrait that lets a working musician's songs and surroundings speak for themselves.

Directed by
Richard Engel
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Gerhard Gundermann, Alfons Förster
Overview
This historically relevant documentation about the Lusatian original Gerhard "Gundi" Gundermann, who was received ambivalently at his time, is a truthful, unfalsified contemporary document, both about the folk song singer and excavator driver himself, as well as about the realities of the time within still existing GDR. His actual quality and significance to this day is evident in the timelessness of his profound songs and lyrics, also written for other artists, in their universality and the poetic power of various interpretations.

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Directed by
Richard Engel
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Gerhard Gundermann, Alfons Förster
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    Themes
    • art
    • work
    • identity
    • politics
    Places
    • countryside
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • true story
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism9
    Romance1
    Tension2
    Darkness3
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Richard Engel
    Written by
    Richard Engel
    Starring
    Gerhard Gundermann, Alfons Förster
    Cinematography
    Bernd Sperberg
    Runtime
    75 min
    Country
    East Germany
    Languages
    German

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