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:
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Funded by:
The Federal Government Commissioner
for Culture and the Media
DEFA Foundation
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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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