Tribute Jürgen Böttcher

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Jürgen Böttcher
German Democratic Republic 1962
15 min
V'02

With this award-winning film about overhauling a furnace 56 meters high and weighing 2,000 tons , Böttcher lay the foundations of his reputation as a documentary filmmaker. It is about steel which, in the early GDR economy, was a magic quantity, the benchmark for all progress. The overhauling generates the films suspense, but Böttcher is only marginally interested in technology, his real interest is to portray heavy manual labor.

Credits
  • Jürgen Böttcher
  • Christian Lehmann
  • Hans Dumke
  • Helmut Gerstmann
  • Gerhard Münch
  • Walter Rosskopf
  • Charlotte Beck
DEFA-Studio f. Wochenschau u. Dokumentarfilme

Progress Filmverleih

35 mm
bw
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