Helga Reidemeister – Lichter aus dem Hintergrund AKA Lights from Afar (1998)
Synopsis:
Berlin, the German capital again, a few years after the fall of the Wall. The city in upheaval is also changing the lives of its inhabitants. A young photographer experiences these changes as a rupture, he looks into an unclear, unsettling future and increasingly feels like a stranger in his old city. He and his friends from the generation of the children of the Wall try to find a new identity without losing the old one. Young artists who fail the profitability test of the market economy. In his search, Robert Paris ends up far away, in India. Back in Berlin, he starts developing photos again – the first in years…
In the mid-nineties, director Helga Reidemeister decided to make a film about the East Berlin photographer Robert Paris. The film ultimately becomes a reflection on how one can live in a rapidly changing city, after a system change from today to tomorrow – without losing oneself.
KF, Filmfestival Cottbus wrote:
Helga Reidemeister is interested in the architectural photography of East Berlin photographer Paris and goes to Potsdamer Platz, which is currently being torn up for a huge construction project. Down below, in the subway station, which has been closed since 1961, Robert Paris has captured the traces of time – he is no longer interested in the construction above, he says it is no longer his city. Reidemeister asks questions, follows him on his photographic expeditions through old Berlin, to his apartment, to his friends, even to India. Paris, once a protagonist of the East German punk scene, only finds something like stability again through deceleration and empathy in India and a new photographic perspective.
Lichter aus dem Hintergrund (1998).mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
Size: 3.69 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 1920x1080
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 24.000 fps
Bit rate: 5 147 kb/s
BPP: 0.103
Audio
#1: German 2.0ch AAC LC @ 192 kb/s
https://nitro.download/view/0C42090AD7103F0/Lichter_aus_dem_Hintergrund_(1998).mkv
Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, French
