Heiligabend auf St. Pauli
Klaus Wildenhahn
1967-68 - RFA - Noir & Blanc - 49'
Photography : Hans-Joachim Theuerkauf
Sound : Helmut Herbst, Klaus Wildenhahn
Editing : Gisela Quicker
Production : NDR
Distribution : Deutsche Kinemathek (dfoerstner@deutsche-kinemathek.de, +49 (0)30 300 903 32)
Klaus Wildenhahn
1967-68 - RFA - Noir & Blanc - 49'
A paean to alcohol as a means of survival to this world, and to the ephemeral communities created by our need not to be alone. Christmas Eve, between six in the evening and four at night, Klaus Wildenhahn films people who are excluded from this "must be" celebration, and land up in a bar in St. Pauli, Hamburg: truck drivers and prostitutes, regular or casual customers, a coach and an amateur boxer… all desperately in search of happiness, tenderness and sex. The unpredictable and abrupt semblance of the pictures, the sounds extraordinarily provided by chance and the dialogs that tend to become shapeless, result in a film that is an unknown masterpiece.
Photography : Hans-Joachim Theuerkauf
Sound : Helmut Herbst, Klaus Wildenhahn
Editing : Gisela Quicker
Production : NDR
Distribution : Deutsche Kinemathek (dfoerstner@deutsche-kinemathek.de, +49 (0)30 300 903 32)