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DEUTSCHLANDJAHR „WUNDERBAR TOGETHER“ GUNDERMANN at German Currents Film Festival Wunderbar together is coming to an end this fall closing an amazing year of events and projects all over the U.S. with very special events. One of the highlights is the screening of the movie GUNDERMANN on Opening Night of the film festival GERMAN CURRENTS in Los Angeles this coming October.
► ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Andreas Dresen was born into a theater family in 1963. He shot his first amateur films when he was just 16 years old. He soon landed his first jobs within the film industry as a sound technician and an assistant director. Later he studied at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. Since 1992 Dresen has been working as an independent author and director. He is a member of the Academy of Arts Berlin, the European Film Academy and a founding member of the German Film Academy. His award winning movies include Silent Country (1992), Night Shapes (1999), Willenbrock (2005), Stopped on Track (2011) and his first children´s movie The boy who sold his laughter (2017).
GUNDERMANN tells the story of a digger driver who writes songs. He is a poet, a clown, an idealist. He dreams and hopes, loves and struggles. He’s a spy who gets spied on, a do-gooder who doesn’t know better. He is torn. GUNDERMANN is both a music film and a love story; a drama about guilt and entanglement, about suppression and confrontation. GUNDERMANN is a film about the homeland. It takes a new look back at the GDR, a country that has disappeared. In GUNDERMANN, director Andreas Dresen looks at the life of Gerhard “Gundi” Gundermann – one of the most formative music artists of East Germany – with sensibility, affection, and humor. Gundermann, a hard worker and musician at heart, died in 1998, at the age of 43. The screenplay is written by Laila Stieler. The leading role is played by Alexander Scheer, who sang all the songs in the film himself. Gundi‘s wife is portrayed by Anna Unterberger, with other roles played by Axel Prahl, Thorsten Merten, Bjarne Madel, Milan Peschel, Kathrin Angerer, and Peter Sodann.
The movie can be seen at the German Currents Film Festival taking place in Los Angeles from October 11th to 14th, 2019 For more information visit www.GermanCurrents.com HEIMAT abroad | FALL 2019 | 13
