Story
Documentary: Observations in the canteen kitchen at the Neptun Shipyard in Rostock, without interviews or commentary. The workers skillfully handle the heavy cauldrons: laughter, heat, steam and snatches of dialogue. Die Küche and Rangierer run as double feature.
Director
Jürgen Böttcher (*1931) was one of the great artists of the GDR, both as documentary film-maker and as a painter working under the pseudonym Strawalde. In 2006, he was awarded the Berlinale Camera.Info
Die Küche
Documentary Feature
German
DDR Deluxe | FF2014
1986
42 min
OV
Jürgen Böttcher
Ulrich Eifler
Thomas Plenert
Gudrun Plenert
Henner Golz, Eberhard Pfaff
Deutsche Kinemathek
Deutsche Kinemathek, DEFA Film Library (USA)
DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme
Deutsche Kinemathek: defa-filmverleih@deutsche-kinemathek.de, DEFA Stiftung: presse@defa-stiftung.de