STOLZ & EIGENSINN

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BRD 2025, documentary film, 113 min

Director: Gerd Kroske

Language: OmeU (German with English subtitles)

Germany immediately after reunification. Women from the former large-scale industrial enterprises of the GDR talk about themselves and the personal independence they have gained through their work. Self-confident and emancipated, they share their astonishment at the fact that suddenly only men are supposed to do their jobs. They also talk about the former utopias that no longer exist today. We also see footage of their day-to-day work in industrial buildings and brown coal mines that have long since disappeared. The interviews have been preserved on old U-matic tapes from the stocks of the former Leipzig pirate radio station KANAL X.

More than 30 years later, Gerd Kroske has recovered this cinematic treasure from the archive and rediscovered the workers from back then. Like an experimental set-up, the old material is commented on and questioned anew by the women in split screen. A film that closes a gap and portrays women who have retained their pride and stubbornness to this day.

ENG: Germany immediately after the fall of the Wall. Women from the former large industrial companies of the GDR talk about themselves and the personal independence they have achieved through their work. Confident and emancipated, they share their astonishment that suddenly only men are supposed to do their jobs.
The interviews are preserved on old U-matic tapes from the archives of the former Leipzig pirate radio station KANAL X. Over 30 years later, Gerd Kroske has recovered this film treasure from the archives and met the women again, who comment on and question the old footage. (German with English subtitles)

Price information:

- 7.50 € (regular) - 6.00 € (reduced*) - 3.50 € (with Leipzig Pass, disabled pass, volunteer pass) - Films longer than 130 min: + 1.00 € - Tickets are available online (plus 0.70 € booking fee), remaining tickets at the Box Office.