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In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Chilean Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large concentration camps in the north of the country — Chacabuco and Pisagua — leaving with filmed sequences and sound recordings.
1974 Special Jury Prize, Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week
1974 Jury Prize, Grenoble International Documentary Film Festival
1974 Silver Sestertius, Nyon International Documentary Film FestivalRead More »
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Stage play directed by Berthold Brecht, filmed by Carl Koch, about a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner’s squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.
Man is Man, a tragi-comedy written in 1927, a work of Brecht’s youth that marks his entry into epic theatre. How can Man manage to adapt to all the different roles that the industrial society of the 20th Century demands, in an apparently intransigent call for change ? Galy Gay is this unorthodox hero who starts out as a messenger and becomes an active soldier under nauseating pressure from dubious soldiers. French critic Bernard Dort noted that the construction and dismantling of Widow Begbick’s refreshments carriage in this play take place at the same time as the transformation of Galy Gay into Jeramiah Jip. The mobility of the location, theatrically points to the instability of the characters in the epic form. Thomas Ostermeier seized upon the theme of deconstruction, and has his actors play furiously with the different states of reality.Read More »