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Kalte Heimat

Deutschland 1994/1995 Dokumentarfilm

Cold Homeland

Seven hundred years ago the region on the Baltic between the Vistula and Memel rivers was populated by a people - the Pruss - who later gave their name to the area: Prussia. In 1945 the northern part of the region fell to the Soviet Union, becoming the Kalingradskaja Oblast: a Russian enclave wedged in between Lithuania and Poland. The film portrays the life of the people of this region, people of different generations and the most disparate backgrounds ...

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

Credits

Director

  • Volker Koepp

Screenplay

  • Michael Elle (Konzept)
  • Volker Koepp (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Thomas Plenert

Editing

  • Angelika Arnold

Music

  • Mario Peters

Production company

  • Dokumentarfilm Babelsberg GmbH (Potsdam)

Alle Credits

Director

  • Volker Koepp

Screenplay

  • Michael Elle (Konzept)
  • Volker Koepp (Konzept)

Interviews

  • Volker Koepp
  • Michael Elle

Translation

  • Witta Margewitsch (Untertitel)

Director of photography

  • Thomas Plenert

Assistant camera

  • Florian Wimmer
  • Michael Löwenberg

Lighting design

  • Wolfgang Hirschke

Editing

  • Angelika Arnold

Assistant editor

  • Heide Hans

Sound

  • Uve Haußig

Audio mixing

  • Manfred Herold

Music

  • Mario Peters

Production company

  • Dokumentarfilm Babelsberg GmbH (Potsdam)

in association with

  • Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) (Köln)
  • Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) (Leipzig)

Producer (TV)

  • Werner Dütsch (WDR)

Line producer

  • Herbert Kruschke

Unit production manager

  • Fritz Hartthaler

Original distributor

  • Progress Film-Verleih GmbH (Berlin)

Shoot

    • 1994: Swetlogoesk/Rauschen, Melinkowo/Rudau, Kaliningrad/Königsberg, Altweynothen, Sowjetsk/Tilsit, [Frühjahr (?)]
Duration:
4337 m, 158 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 13.04.1995, 73061, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE): 01.07.1996, West 3

Titles

Additional titles
  • Abschnittstitel (DE) Kalte Heimat - Leben im nördlichen Ostpreußen
  • Originaltitel (DE) Kalte Heimat
  • Weiterer Titel (DE) Kalte Heimat - Leben in Ostpreußen

Versions

Original

Duration:
4337 m, 158 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 13.04.1995, 73061, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE): 01.07.1996, West 3

Awards

Deutscher Filmpreis 1996
  • Filmband in Gold, Beste Kamera
IFF Nyon 1996
  • Publikumspreis
FBW 1995
  • Prädikat: wertvoll
Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/kalte-heimat_ea43d4a75f7d5006e03053d50b37753d