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Ein Traum in Erdbeerfolie
- Runtime:
- 84 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2008
- Country:
- Deutschland
- Director:
- Cast:
- Sabine von Oettingen
Klaus Ehrlich
Marco Wilms
Jürgen Hohmut - Production Company:
- LOOKS Film & Television GmbH
- Berlinale Section:
- Panorama
- Berlinale Category:
- Documentary Film
COMRADE COUTURE is a journey through the wild underground world of fashion and so-called “survival artists“ in East Berlin. It was a world of make-believe amidst the restrictive daily life of the GDR. Here you could march to a different beat, be individual, and provocative. The most important distinguishing characteristic of this scene was your own personal style, as this was not for sale in the former East Germany. Subculture space was the place you could reinvent yourself.
The film imparts the desires, passions and dreams that were attempted, experienced and contrived in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. Director Marco Wilms, himself a model back then at a GDR fashion institute, revives this unique attitude towards life of economic carefreeness and the radical need to be different in the Here and Now. He catches up with the heros of his East Berlin youth: Sabine von Oettingen - a designer, Robert Paris - a photographer, and Frank Schäfer - a stylist and hairdresser and has them recount their glitzy subculture life. After two decades the members and friends of the legendary East Berlin avant-garde fashion theater meet for a reunion of the “Chic Charmant and Dauerhaft” (The chic, charming and eternal) and “Allerleirauh” (All Kinds of Fur) at a 'subversive' East Block party event initiated by director Marco Wilms.
COMRADE COUTURE is a humorous film about creativity as a life force – and the never-ending desire for individual freedom.
BIOGRAFIE Marco Wilms
Born in East-Berlin in 1966. A tool maker, graphic designer and model, in 1990 he took up studies in set design at Weißen see Art College and at the “Konrad Wolf” College of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. A DAAD fellow in the USA and in Thailand, he also trained at the Actors Studio in New York. Graduating in directing from the “Konrad Wolf” College in 2001, he subsequently lectured in Russia, Thailand and Vietnam.
FILMOGRAFIE Marco Wilms (selection)
2018 Metal Politics Taiwan
2014 Art War
2008 Ein Traum in Erdbeerfolie