Films by Hans Eberhard Leupold

Germany 2007, 2557 min
by Winfried Junge, Barbara Junge

In 1961 Winfried Junge made a short portrait of children in their first year of school WENN ICH ERST ZUR SCHULE GEH' in the East German village of Golzow (Oderbruch), only a few days before the Berlin Wall was built. In the meantime this chronicle has grown in more than four decades into 20 films between 13 and 284 minutes in length. The latest work AND IF THEY HAVEN'T PASSED AWAY portrays five of THE CHILDREN OF GOLZOW, who are now all over the age of 50: Ilona, electrical engineer and later yo