• Run time: 6 minutes 5 seconds
• Original title: Ungebrochen
• Country of origin: Germany

Hamptons Int'l Film Festival

October 15 - 19, 2008

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Synopsis:

Wolfgang, in his fifties now, grew up in the former GDR. He studied external trade in Berlin and after his diploma worked for 17 years at TechnoCommerz, a company specialised in machine trade for the delivery industry.
With the fall of the wall, he has to change professions and becomes an insurance salesman. First employed with a German insurance firm, then he starts his own company and manages to make ends meet for a couple of years. But when his company goes bankrupt, Wolfgang is able to find different jobs, but no fixed employment.

In 2001, he sees no other choice but to register himself unemployed for the first time. Not until 2005, his job agent offers him a so-called One-Euro-Job at a Berlin school library, which he gladly accepts. Working with children and daily contact to his colleagues allow him to reintegrate fully into society and also give him the feeling of being useful.
Against great odds (the fall of the wall and the consequences derived) Wolfgang does not seem to have lost his courage to face life. Seventeen years after the German Reunification the portrait provides a very personal insight into his life.(more)

• Director:

  Jolanka Hoehn

• Writer(s):

  Jolanka Hoehn

• Executive Producer(s):

  Axel Volmar

• Producer(s):

  Jolanka Hoehn

• Director of Photography:

  Thomas Ziller / Merle Jothe

• Cast and Credits:

  
  
  Cast & Crew
  Screenplay & Director: Jolanka Hoehn
  Produktion: Axel Volmar
  Producer: Jolanka Hoehn
  Kamera: Thomas Ziller
  Photography: Merle Jothe
  Schnitt: Jolanka Hoehn
  Editing: Axel Volmar
  Sound & Music: Axel Volmar
  Post Production: Peter Domsch (Studio Kitsune)
  Produktionsassistenz: Delia Herrn
  Production Assistants: Conny Meyer
  Interview transcription: Birgit Lettmann
  Exposé counselling: Anja Ackermann
  Protagonist: Wolfgang Hoehn
  weitere Kinder und Lehrer der Grundschule an den Püttbergen, Berlin Treptow-Köpenick other Children & teachers at Puettbergen Elementary School, Berlin Treptow-Koepenick(more)

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