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Einzelkämpfer

Deutschland 2011-2013 Dokumentarfilm

The GDR may have been a small country, but it was a highly successful sporting nation. Director Sandra Kaudelka was herself one of its top athletes and at an early age became part of the GDR’s intensive sports programme. Although wholly uninterested in sports, she was, much to her chagrin, discovered to be a talented diver. Her memories of the hated, brutal training sessions she underwent on a daily basis still haunt her to this day. In this film she sets off in search of her athletic colleagues – all proverbial "great sporting heroes" – and meets four people with very different biographies: Brita Baldus, three time European diving champion; Ines Geipel, who holds a world record in the relay; Olympic champion shot putter Udo Beyer; and Marita Koch, world record holder in the 400-metre sprint.

The film’s nuanced juxtaposition of biographies and points of view provides detailed personal insights into both the GDR’s ‘sports miracle’ and German history – before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Source: 63. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

Credits

Director

  • Sandra Kaudelka

Screenplay

  • Sandra Kaudelka (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Jenny Lou Ziegel
  • Hendrik Reichelt

Editing

  • Sandra Kaudelka
  • Vessela Martschewski

Music

  • Cassis B Staudt

Production company

  • Lichtblick Media Gmbh (Berlin)

Producer

  • Martin Heisler

Alle Credits

Director

  • Sandra Kaudelka

Screenplay

  • Sandra Kaudelka (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Jenny Lou Ziegel
  • Hendrik Reichelt

Editing

  • Sandra Kaudelka
  • Vessela Martschewski

Sound design

  • Daniel Engel

Sound

  • Felix Heibges

Audio mixing

  • Alexander Leser

Music

  • Cassis B Staudt

Production company

  • Lichtblick Media Gmbh (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH (dffb) (Berlin)
  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz) (Das Kleine Fernsehspiel)

Producer

  • Martin Heisler

Co-Producer

  • Jan Schütte

Producer (TV)

  • Christian Cloos (ZDF)

Original distributor

  • farbfilm verleih GmbH (Berlin)

Funding

  • Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBB) (Potsdam)

Shoot

    • 23.05.2011 - 28.11.2011
Duration:
90 min
Format:
HD, 16:9
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 02.10.2013, 141223, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 15.02.2013, Berlin, IFF - Perspektive Deutsches Kino;
Kinostart (DE): 10.10.2013

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Einzelkämpfer

Versions

Original

Duration:
90 min
Format:
HD, 16:9
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 02.10.2013, 141223, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 15.02.2013, Berlin, IFF - Perspektive Deutsches Kino;
Kinostart (DE): 10.10.2013

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