Synopsis
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
©2009
MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS
THE DROPOUTS
IT IS BEAUTIFUL TO BE YOUNG
THE KOEPCKE GANG
THE YILMAZ-CLAN
©2013
A BAKER ON THE BREAD-LINE
LIFE OF LEISURE
CHIMNEY SWEEPS
HAPPY FAMILY
