Synopse
A filmic piece of Hamburg from the early 1980s: the experimental New Wave satire Tscherwonez quickly gained cult status and is now being celebrated in a restored print. On his first visit to the West, a Soviet seaman sets out to look for his brother in Hamburg – shadowed by the KGB, the German secret service and a red-top hack. To the sound of the Limburg Neue Deutsche Welle band The Wirtschaftswunder, Tscherwonez echoes film classics like Battleship Potemkin and Ninotschka. The film was produced by Abaton founder Werner Grassmann.
Regie
GÁBOR ALTORJAY (*1946) was born in Hungary and was in the 1960s part of the Fluxus movement. In 1967, he fled to West Germany and ended up in Hamburg, where he made his first two films Tscherwonez and Pankow ’95.
Info
Original Title: Tscherwonez
International Title: Tscherwonez
Category: Feature
Section: Hamburger Filmschau
Version & Subtitles: English, Russian, German OV with German subtitles
Director: Gábor Altorjay
Cast/Protagonists: Tom Dokoupil, Peter Halas, Stephen Balint, Eva Buchmüller, Sheryl Sutton, Angelo Galizia, u.a.
Production country: Germany
Year of Production: 1982
Length: 92 min
Production company: Studio 1 Filmproduktion, Werner Grassmann KG, WDR, ZDF Enterprises
Costume Design: Dörte Jepsen, Joachim Ketzel
Distributor: Stephan Holl, Rapid Eye Movies HE GmbH
