Die Architekten
7.2 /10 1 Votes7.2
Director Peter Kahane Country East Germany | 7/10 Genre Drama Duration Language German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1990 (1990) Writer Peter Kahane, Thomas Knauf (scenario) Cast Kurt Naumann (Daniel Brenner), Rita Feldmeier (Wanda Brenner), Uta Eisold (Renate Reese), Werner Dissel (Alter), Christoph Engel (Ökonom Endler), Wolfgang Greese (Günther Adam)Genres Drama, World cinema, Political drama Similar movies Mission: Impossible III , The Lives of Others , Independence Day , Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End , Good bye, Lenin! , The Tunnel |
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Die Architekten (The Architects) is an East German film directed by Peter Kahane. It was released in 1990.
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Plot
Daniel Brenner is an architect in his late thirties. Despite a top university degree, he has to spend his professional life with bus shelters and telephone booths. Then he receives the appealing commission to design a cultural center for a satellite town. Brenner accepts under the condition that he will be allowed to select his own team. Their plan to create a non-conventional construction fails. His wife and their common daughter leave the country for West Germany. Broken and desillusioned, Brenner collapses in front of the project’s inauguration tribune.
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Music
The music was written by Tamas Kahane. The film's songs counterpoint its images: Unsere Heimat is added to scenes of urban canyons, the Berlin Wall, industrial complexes and prefabricated housing developments. The protagonist collapses to the tunes of Handel's Messiah.
Reception
With less than 6,000 tickets sold, the film received scant attention at the time of release. In retrospect it is considered a significant cineastic contribution to the country's time of transition.
References
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