Känguruh-Film GmbH Berlin

Germany 2009, 810 min
by Detlef Gumm, Hans-Georg Ullrich

Detlef Gumm and Hans-Georg Ullrich began working on their long-term observational documentary BERLIN - ECKE BUNDESPLATZ twenty-four years ago. Their plan was to make a series of short and longerfilms documenting the fortunes of several inhabitants of an ordinary Berlin neighbourhood as theymoved towards the year 2000. The protagonists were a typical cross-section of people living in an oldquarter of West-Berlin, and so, in their film, widows, a high-flying lawyer, drop-outs, owners of smallbusinesses and a single mother became chroniclers of their Wilmersdorf world.These films are, like their authors and the people portrayed in the films, a part of this area of Berlin.BERLIN - ECKE BUNDESPLATZ is a declaration of love to generations of people who have never stoppedstruggling and dreaming.The titles of the Episodes are©2009MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERSTHE DROPOUTSIT IS BEAUTIFUL TO BE YOUNGTHE KOEPCKE GANGTHE YILMAZ-CLAN©2013A BAKER ON THE BREAD-LINELIFE OF LEISURECHIMNEY SWEEPSHAPPY FAMILY