The Children of Golzow

The children of Golzow is a long-term film documentary about the pupils in a school class from the Brandenburg Golzow in the Oder.

More than seventy kilometers, about 45 hours of footage have emerged. In 20 films, 18 people from the years 1953-1955 were accompanied 1961-2007 by Barbara and Winfried Junge in her life. In the two parts And if they have not died ... and then ... they still live today ended the longest documentary in film history.

The films illuminate not only the individual life stories of the protagonists, but also give a deep insight into the history of the GDR and its unification with the Federal Republic of Germany as well as in aesthetics and the claim of the DEFA documentary.

The idea for this project came from Karl Gass. 1985 was the result of CVs in the " GUINNESS film, Fact & Feats " as the film with the longest production time in film history. After the end of the GDR and thus the DEFA Young led the Golzow project in co-production with ARD stations, especially the RBB, etc.; the "a jour film and television production GmbH" has since become a producer of his films, the movie rental Progress evaluates the children of Golzow in cinemas and festivals from.

The primary school of Golzow was renamed in July 2008 based on the television production started there in " primary school children of Golzow".

Released movies

• Resumes - The Children of Golzow, STOKE VERLAG, Marburg, ISBN 3-89472-357-2
• Documenting without ceasing. East German film and life history in Winfried Young "The children of Golzow " BÜCHNER PUBLISHING, Darmstadt, ISBN 978-3-941310-05-6
• The children of Golzow 1961-2001 (10 VHS, individually or in Komplettbox )
• All the films mentioned above are available as single or double - DVD. Apart And if they have not died ... and then ... they still live today all movies are also available as VHS.