Catalogue des films de « Gerd Kroske »

Wolfgang “Wolli” Köhler is a Fassbinder-like character. A refugee from East Germany—yesterday, a porn cinema owner and brothel manager, quoting readily from Marx and Lenin, he defines himself as “a Bolshevik pimp”, and today, a poet and...

In March 1990, Gerd Kroske started filming road sweepers in Leipzig. In the following years, he returned to his protagonists and continued shooting. “Sweep it up, again” is the third film in this documentary trilogy, shot in 2006. Some of his...

Norbert Grupe alias the "Prince Wilhelm of Hombourg" was a fearsome boxing legend in the sixties and seventies. He lived lavishly in the US where his boxing career starts. Because of his show talent the audience starts to divide itself. Either...

Une maison de redressement à Berlin, une maison d'enfants à Saint-Pétersbourg, une cité à Mantes-la-Jolie et un bidonville à Rio... Autant de lieux où les jeunes expriment la même rengaine : "C'est la galère..." Pas d'argent, une...

All the trains stop at Brest-Litovsk station, the frontier-station between Poland and Byelorussia. The individual destinies which cross paths in this anonymous space have lived through all the suffering of two wars and different occupations. These...

Leipzig is in a period of change. Nightly conversations with street sweepers are dominated by hopelessness and broken self-confidence, but one can also recognize a keen sense for the change in social climate following the political unification in...