ENGELBECKEN

A film by Gamma Bak and Steffen Reck
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[DE/2014]  [w/Engl. subtitles]  
[80 min.]  [DCP/BD/DVD]
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Gamma Bak Filmproduktion
Luckauer Str. 3 | 10969 Berlin | Germany
Ph: +49 30 614 9315
US line: +1 (518) 250 1288
E-Mail: gammabak@t-online.de
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German distribution:  gmfilms
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Funded by:
The Federal Government Commissioner
for Culture and the Media
BKM
DEFA Foundation
DEFA-Stiftung
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CREDITS


ENGELBECKEN

In memory of Steffen’s uncle, Walther P. Reck,
who emigrated to the United States in 1939.

People and voices:

Volker Ludwig, Rüdiger Wehling, Reck siblings: Brigitte Polak and Rolf Reck,
Wicki Bernhardt, Sandra Bahr, Ulrich Zieger (†), Günther Lindner, Herbert Reck, Hans Krüger, György Kozma, Jochen Wermann, Gamma Bak and Steffen Reck

Members of the theatre group Zinnober:

Gabriele Hänel, Iduna Hegen, Uta Schulz, Werner Hennrich, Hans Krüger, Günther Lindner, Dieter Kraft, Steffen Reck

and

Ulrich Zieger (†), Christian Werdin, Agnes Gambrow, Sven Olaf Svenson, Hartmut Mechtel, Therese Thomaschke, Udo Petter

Music: Fil Ieropoulos
Sound mix: Till Wimmer

Transcriptions: Juliane Wlodarczak
Production assistant/
Subtitles: Alexandra Dimitriou

Translations: Abraham Translations

Archival recovery assistant: Friederike Philipson

Directed by
Gamma Bak & Steffen Reck

Montage
Image editing
Video post-production: Steffen Reck

Produced by Gamma Bak

 

Film excerpts and archives:

Films

"traum haft"
Directed by Zinnober/ Werner Buhs
Cinematography: Wolfgang Lindig
Commissioning editor: Hannelore Kelling
First broadcasted by SWF Baden-Baden, 1989
With thanks to Volker Ludwig

"Eine Frau und ihr Kontrabass" (A Woman and Her Double Bass) – Fragments
Directed by Gamma Bak, 1993
With thanks to the Film Institute HdK, Jutta Brückner

"Der Messias" (The Messiah)
Directed by Hans Krüger, Uli Zieger(†)
Performance of the group "Zinnober" and the Andreas-Quintett
Video: Klaus Freymuth (†), 1987
With thanks to Maschka Freymuth and the Robert Havemann Association

"gesicherte ufer" (Secured Waterfront)
Directed by Steffen Reck
Cinematography: Wolfgang Lindig
Commissioning editor: Hannelore Kelling
First broadcasted by SWF Baden-Baden, 1990

"traum haft"
Performance of the group "Zinnober"
Video: Gamma Bak, 1987

Super 8 and VHS archive by Steffen Reck
"Liezen-Lehm", 1984, together with Volker Henze
"Elbe", 1983
"Zwiebel" (Onion), 1984
"Drei Jungs löschen einen Container" (3 Boys Extinguish a Garbage Container), 1983
"Ein Film mit Ingrid Bergmann" (A Movie with Ingrid Bergmann), 1987
"Möwenfenster" (Seagull Window), 1981
"Weihnachtsmarkt" (Christmas Market), 1984
"Engelbecken", VHS, 1989 - 1991

"Engelbecken Überwachungsmontage" (Engelbecken Surveillance Sequence), 2011
Cinematography: Dieter Vervuurt

Super-8 films at Alexanderplatz, Treptow and Opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989/90:
Michael Krause, Gamma Bak

Photos and documents archive
Jochen Wermann, Ingrid Behla (†)
Gamma Bak and Steffen Reck

The Department of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Documents
Gudrun Heuts, Beate Vajen

Audio interviews, 1995
Steffen Reck

Video interview, 2010
Sandra Bahr

Audio interview, 2011
Wicki Bernhardt

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Special thanks

Henryk Baranowski (†) Transformtheater
Volker Ludwig – Grips Theater

András Hegedüs (†), István Eörsi (†), János Bak, Anna Bak-Gara, Zsófia Bak, Péter Csada, Péter Bak, Elisabeth Reck, Agnes Ehrig, Simone Reck, Kirsten Teubel, Sabine Zucker, Axel Besteher, André Kirchner, Hendrik Mannes, Sylvia Pohl, Beate Riemenschneider, Andreas Krause, Sabine Zolchow, José Luís De Freitas Branco, Thorsten Schneider (nb-film), Wolfgang Zwieback Krause, Volker Henze Galerie Sredzkystr, Wolfgang Krause Galerie O2, Hans Skirecki, György Dalos, Michaela Ott, Philippe Despoix, Marie-Louise Lindemann, Michael Macpherson, Bernd Damowski, Judd Ne’eman, Penelope Buitenhuis, Michael Fischer (†),Thom Schilling, Dele Voß, Mylène Bilbo Calvez, Allison McDonald, Barbara Etz, Bettina Wilhelm, Martina Reiche, Emanuelle Salvaing, Arnold Dreyblatt, Bryan E. Sutton, Kristin Derfler, Rosalinde Sartorti, Jürgen Brüning, Eric Sturm, Barbara Müller, Ambach Family, Maier Family

Accountant
Rainer Baumann

Film accounting
Wiebke Müller

Legal advice
KVLEGAL – Christlieb Klages

Digitizing of archival material
AVP Video-Transfer
Schnittplatz Berlin

Typewriter font "Cella"
Volker Busse – F25 Digital Typeface Design

Sponsoring MOVIEMENTO KINO BERLIN

MUSIC

Improvisation for "Liezen Lehm"
Till Wimmer (eb), Thorsten Schneider (g), Piper (perc), Steffen Reck (voc, kb)
Berlin, 2011

"Nothing New"
Written by M. Hons, J. Belmas, Scruff, S. Beadle and M. McGarry
Performed by NO EXIT
Engineered and produced by Ivo at Braineater Studios, Vancouver, BC
Courtesy of Sean Scruff Newton
©1980

"Worry Lines"
Written by Filtig & Dalot
Performed by Cloudcub
©2009

Funded by

The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media


DEFA Foundation

 

© 2014 Gamma Bak Filmproduktion

www.engelbecken.net


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