Gerd Conradt — Director (3)
Movie
星巴克霍格·迈因斯 (2002)
Starbuck Holger Meins Douban
other title:
Starbuck Holger Meins
A documentary portrait of Holger Meins, the Red Army Faction member who died in Stammheim prison, following a hunger strike in 1974. His painful death was the culmination of a journey from art school, via film-making, to increasingly militant actions against the Vietnam War, media monopolies and corporate control. Friends contribute numerous memories, there are clips from his short work and valuable archive footage of both the times and his creatively oppositional community. If, finally, we do not come away with a clear sense of the man's interior motivation, this is partly because so much of his identity was bound up in the larger social frame, one well-communicated in this intelligent work. Meins' codename 'Starbuck', incidentally, was drawn from Moby-Dick
Movie
Color Test: The Red Flag (1968)
Die rote Fahne Douban
Carlos Bustamante
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Gerd Conradt
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actor:
Hans Behringer
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Gerd Conradt
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other title:
红旗
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Die rote Fahne
A red flag is carried through the busy streets of Berlin by a team of relay runners. The relay, in which a total of 15 individuals take part, begins in Schloßstraße in the district of Steglitz. Among the runners and flag bearers are Thomas Mitscherlich, Holger Meins and Gerd Conradt. The procession takes Rheinstraße, Hauptstraße and Dominicusstraße en route to its final destination in Berlin-Schöneberg. Under the astonished eyes of passers-by, the final runner raises the red flag on the balcony of the city hall building, the seat of the government of West Berlin.