Der Kontrolleur
Synopsis
The Border Guard
Hermann Hoffstedt worked for 30 years as a border guard of the GDR. Then, from one day to the next, the border ceased to exist. Hermann was made redundant. His wife died shortly afterwards of a heart attack. Hermann lives on in the old world.
Day by day, he drives out to the deserted border crossing point and carries out his work ...
Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH
Credits
| Director: | Stefan Trampe |
| Screenplay: | Uwe Mann, Stefan Trampe |
| Director of photography: | Uwe Mann |
| Editing: | Karin Geiß |
| Music: | Thomas Klemm |
| Cast: | |
| Hermann Beyer | Hermann |
| Ulrike Krumbiegel | Ine / Marianne |
| Eugen Krößner | Hermann als Junge |
| Hans-Uwe Bauer | Mann im Auto |
| Michael Gwisdek | Rolf |
| Jérôme Fink | 1. Kind |
| Linn Hirschke | 2. Kind |
| Juliane Zöllner | 3. Kind |
| Regine Seidler | |
| Thomas Wendrich | |
| Production company: | City Film (Berlin) |
| Producer: | Robert Ganzke |
All Credits
| Director: | Stefan Trampe |
| Assistant director: | Jens Alpermann |
| Script supervisor: | Ulrich Seidler |
| Screenplay: | Uwe Mann, Stefan Trampe |
| Story: | Kerstin Hensel, Stefan Trampe |
| Script editor: | Angelika Mieth, Egon Günther (Beratung) |
| Director of photography: | Uwe Mann |
| Assistant camera: | Steffen Kießling, Robert Laatz, Dirk Heth |
| Still photography: | Sabine Michel |
| Lighting design: | Wolfgang Hirschke |
| Set design: | Uwe Riemer |
| Set construction: | Björn Holzhausen |
| Prop master: | Marianne Drope |
| Construction manager: | Torsten Königs |
| Costume design: | Regina Viertel |
| Make-up artist: | Bettina Schallock |
| Editing: | Karin Geiß |
| Assistant editor: | Claudia Scholze |
| Sound: | Ronald Gohlke |
| Sound assistant: | Stefan Kolbe |
| Audio mixing: | Joseph Veith |
| Special effects: | Björn Holzhausen |
| Music: | Thomas Klemm |
| Cast: | |
| Hermann Beyer | Hermann |
| Ulrike Krumbiegel | Ine / Marianne |
| Eugen Krößner | Hermann als Junge |
| Hans-Uwe Bauer | Mann im Auto |
| Michael Gwisdek | Rolf |
| Jérôme Fink | 1. Kind |
| Linn Hirschke | 2. Kind |
| Juliane Zöllner | 3. Kind |
| Regine Seidler | |
| Thomas Wendrich | |
| Production company: | City Film (Berlin) |
| in co-production with: | Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen »Konrad Wolf« (Potsdam-Babelsberg), Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB) (Potsdam-Babelsberg), Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) (Leipzig) |
| Producer: | Robert Ganzke |
| Producer (TV): | Cooky Ziesche, Nicole Kellerhals |
| Unit production manager: | Michael Eichler |
| Location manager: | Kai-Uwe Blümel, Helge Albers, Jens Ove Glade |
| Production manager: | Christine Ganzke |
| Shoot: | 1994: Drewitz (ehemaliger Grenzübergang) [Sommer (?)] |
| Original distributor: | Filmkundliches Archiv (Köln) |
| Length: | 63 min |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1,66 |
| Picture/Sound: | Agfacolor, Ton |
| Screening: | Uraufführung (DE): 18.01.1995, Saarbrücken, Max-Ophüls-Preis; Aufführung (DE): 02.1995, Berlin, IFF - Neue Deutsche Filme; TV-Erstsendung: 13.11.1995, ORB |
Titles
| Originaltitel (DE) Der Kontrolleur |
Versions
Original | |
| Length: | 63 min |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1,66 |
| Picture/Sound: | Agfacolor, Ton |
| Screening: | Uraufführung (DE): 18.01.1995, Saarbrücken, Max-Ophüls-Preis; Aufführung (DE): 02.1995, Berlin, IFF - Neue Deutsche Filme; TV-Erstsendung: 13.11.1995, ORB |



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