Story
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.
Director
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.Trailer
Info
Tscherwonez
Fiction Feature
German, English, Russian
Hamburger Premieren | FF2021
Germany
1982
92 min
OV with German subtitles
Gábor Altorjay
Gábor Altorjay
Tom Dokoupil, Peter Halas, Stephen Balint, Eva Buchmüller, Sheryl Sutton, Angelo Galizia, u.a.
Werner Grassmann
Jörg Jeshel
Thomas Rancka
Gábor Altorjay
The Wirtschaftswunder/Tom Dokoupil
Michael Tonke
Dörte Jepsen, Joachim Ketzel
Rapid Eye Movies HE GmbH
Studio 1 Filmproduktion; Werner Grassmann KG; WDR; ZDF
Stephan Holl, Rapid Eye Movies HE GmbH: info@rapideyemovies.de