The different life paths of former girlfriends from Catholic and Protestant homes respectively - one a draftswoman, the other a chemical laboratory technician - in two interrelated films, in which love, like the demands and attitudes to life in the change of its foundations in the process of the decline of the GDR and its accession to the Federal Republic of Germany, play a special role.
Direction
Junge's decades-long observation without intervention.
Editing
Collapsing 40 years into parallel lives—seamless, devastating.
Director
Winfried Junge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Golzow project spans over 60 films and 50+ years, making it one of cinema's longest-running documentary endeavors.
Marieluise and her Protestant counterpart embody what East Germans called 'Mauer im Kopf'—the wall in the mind—long after 1989.
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