Country: Germany
Year: 2007
Duration: 86'
Jeanette is 24 years old. She is unemployed and lives with her two “Following Stau in 1992 and Neustadt in 1999, Kinder. Wie die Zeit
children Tommy, aged 8, and Paul, aged 3. Her dream is to become
a bus driver. Seven years later, Jeanette has a third child, Annabelle,
and is together with Guido. They are both bus drivers.
At 15, Tommy is the same age his mother was when she got pregnant
with him. He wants to apply to stay on at school although he doesn’t
know why. Paul, aged 10, Jeanette’s second son has got his school
recommendation. He could go to grammar school but he doesn’t want
to. Jeanette’s mother Ingrid is a housewife and her father works shifts
on the refinery grounds. Now their oldest sons and daughter have left
home. Only the youngest, Tino, aged 18, is still at home. Father and
son don’t speak to one another. Tino is training to become a warehouse
clerk and wants to be a Nazi.
vergeht is my third film about people in Saxony Anhalt. An
overpainting.”
Biography
film director
Thomas Heise
Thomas Heise (Berlin, 1955), after his military service in the East German armed forces, began to work as an assistant director at the DEFA - Studio for Feature Films in 1975. Between 1978 and 1983 he studied at the Academy of Film & Television in Potsdam- Babelsberg. His first documentary, Wozu denn über diese Leute einen Film (1980), was banned from public screening. In 1990 he acquired his MA at the Berlin Academy of Fine Art. He was a member of the Berlin Ensemble until 1997, where acted as contributing director for a number of productions.
FILMOGRAFIA
Wozu denn über diese Leute einen Film (cm, doc., 1980), Erfinder 82 (cm, doc., 1982), Das Haus (mm, doc., 1984), Volkspolizei (mm, doc., 1985), Heiner Müller 1 (mm, doc., 1987), 4 November 1989 (doc., 1989), Zuchthaus Brandenburg, Dezember 1989 (coregia/codirector Hans Wintgen, doc., 1989), Eisenzeit (Iron Age, doc., 1991), Stau - Jetzt geht’s los (Jammed - Let’s Get Moving, doc., 1992), Barluschke (doc., 1997), Neustadt Stau - Der Stand der Dinge (Neustadt Jammed - The State of Things, doc., 2000), Meine Kneipe (mm, doc., 2000), Vaterland (Fatherland, doc., 2002), Der Ausländer (The Foreigner, mm, doc., 2004), Mein Bruder. We’ll Meet Again (mm, doc., 2005), Im Glück - Neger (Lucky - Niggers, doc., 2006), Kinder. Wie die Zeit vergeht (Children. As Time Flies, doc., 2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Thomas Heise
fotografia/cinematography Börres Weiffenbach
montaggio/film editing Karin Schöning, Trevor Hall
suono/sound Uve Haußig
produttore/producer Heino Deckert
produzione/production ma.ja.de. filmproduktion
coproduttore/coproducer Katrin Schlösser
coproduzione/coproduction Ö Filmproduktion and MDR
vendita all’estero/world sales Deckert Distribution
fotografia/cinematography Börres Weiffenbach
montaggio/film editing Karin Schöning, Trevor Hall
suono/sound Uve Haußig
produttore/producer Heino Deckert
produzione/production ma.ja.de. filmproduktion
coproduttore/coproducer Katrin Schlösser
coproduzione/coproduction Ö Filmproduktion and MDR
vendita all’estero/world sales Deckert Distribution