Born in '45
Jahrgang 45 | Drama | GDR | 1966 | Director: Jürgen Böttcher | 94 min | 35mm | German Original Version | with Monika Hildebrand, Rolf Römer, Holger Mahlich
Al is 23 years young and has been married to Li for two years. They live together in a one-room old apartment in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district. But Al doesn’t want to go on living as before. He wants to break through the familiar, even if he doesn’t yet know where he wants to go.
Loan of the film print with kind support of Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.
Supporting Film: The Sunbeam
The Sunbeam | Comedy, Drama | USA | 1912 | Director: D.W. Griffith | 15 min | 16mm | Original Version | with Dell Henderson, Kate Bruce, Adolph Lestina
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
Loan of the film print with kind support of Metropolis Archiv - Kinemathek Hamburg.
