OFENBAUER

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.