Stolz & Eigensinn

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Film by Gerd Kroske; D 2025, 113 minutes

Location: Prager Frühling cinema bar, Bernhard-Göring-Straße 152 / House of Democracy, 04277 Leipzig

Germany immediately after reunification. The second great wave of redundancies has reached the East. Women from the former large-scale industrial enterprises of the GDR talk about themselves and the personal independence they have gained through their work with surprising naturalness. Self-confident and emancipated, they share their astonishment that suddenly only men are supposed to do their jobs. They also talk about the utopias of the past 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.

After more than 30 years, Gerd Kroske recovered this cinematic treasure from the archive and found the workers from back then. Like an experimental set-up, the old material is commented on and scrutinized anew. "Stolz und Eigensinn" is a media encirclement that closes a gap and portrays women who have retained their pride and stubbornness to this day. What was once gained? What has been lost? What has happened? https://salzgeber.de/stolzundeigensinn

GERD KROSKE Born in Dessau, apprenticeship as a concrete worker. Telegram messenger. Studied cultural studies and directing at the HFF "Konrad Wolf". Worked as an author and dramaturge at the DEFA documentary film studio. Freelance since 1991. Producer at realistfilm since 1996.

Cooperation Kinobar Prager Frühling and Frauenkultur Admission: 8,50 | 7,00 Euro reduced

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https://salzgeber.de/stolzundeigensinn

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Admission: 8,50 | 7,00 Euro reduced