We all die, the main thing however is how and how we live our lives. Holger Meins.
(Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder frage ist nur wie und wie du gelebt hast. Holger Meins.)
Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets
Germany, 1975, 16mm, color and b&w, 60 min.
German with English subtitles.
Holger Meins started studying film in 1964. When he was arrested in 1970 he was working as a cameraman on diverse projects and had made a twenty-minute film on a homeless man that was highly esteemed by his fellow students. After leaving jail he became seriously engaged in the protest movement against the war in Vietnam and was again arrested in 1972. He was accused of being a terrorist and died in prison while on a hunger strike in 1974. He was thirty-three.
In my film, I interviewed a friend who lived with him for a while, a young woman who was part of a student group. Holger Meins and a fellow student were working on a film project aimed at helping the young ones articulate their problems and translate them into film. - Renate Sami
With Hartmut Bitomsky, Gerd Conradt, Ulrike Edschmid, Harun Farocki, Helke Sander, Clara Schmidt and Günter Peter Straschek.
Also screening as part of the Cinema of Resistance series.
PRECEDED BY
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The Protection Foil (Die Schutzfolie)
Directed by Renate Sami.
West Germany, 1983, 16mm, black & white, 8 min.
This film was produced to be included in a compilation of films against the construction of atomic bombs and nuclear powerplants. Some trees and bushes, a clearing. A young man tries to wrap himself in a foil, and a girl who sings about love accompanies herself on a children’s bandoneon. - RS
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When You See A Rose (Wenn Du eine Rose siehst)
Directed by Renate Sami.
Germany, 1995, 16mm, color, 5 min.
Under the spell of Cathy Berberian’s voice,
scraps of melodies and poems in my head
in love with spring and summer’s flowers
I walked through streets and gardens, pastures, fields and forests
and by the end of that summer 1995 I had a little film
which ends somewhat melancholically
with some chords of Gustav Mahler's “Traveling Journeyman`s Songs" - RS
Part of film series
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We all die, the main thing however is how and how we live our lives. Holger Meins.
