Trailer
Year
2008
Length
60/120 min
Directors
Helgard Haug & Daniel Wetzel
Election Campaign Wallenstein - a Documentary Theater Piece
Loyalty, love, power, betrayal, war. A documentary oscillating between the genres of film and theatre describing the tense relationship between staging and reality.
Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel from the theater group Rimini Protokoll search in their field study relating to Schiller’s piece “Wallenstein” the timeless conflicts behind the text, and try to adopt Schiller to the present. Initially, in the year 2005, a documentary theater production is created, which doesn’t use real actors, but normal people playing themselves. “Specialist from every day life” from Mannheim and Weimar oppose Schiller’s Wallenstein-protagonists with their own biographies. Ten humans from two cities, who belonged to the opposite ideological blocks on both sides of the iron curtain: Experts for the rise and fall in the political game around power, loyalty and obedience or the individual in rapid political transition periods.
For their concept of the “Antia-Drama-Theatre” Haug, Kaegia and Wetzel aka “Rimini-Protokoll” achieved the Special Award of the German Theater Award “Der Faust” in November 2007, in April 2008 they recieved the European Theater Award in the category “New Realities”. With their Wallenstein-Production they visited the “Berliner Theatertreffen”, the “Zürcher Festspiele”, the “Hamburger Autorentheater-Tage” and the “Festival Mettre en Scène in Rennes” in France. Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel have re-staged their “Wallenstein” with their “experts of reality” for the camera. With the means of theater an extraordinary documentary succeeded which makes “Wallenstein” in an associative transfer a force field outside of the theater.
This theater-documentary with its quasi living protocols sticks close to reality because the protagonists are authentical as they are themselves, but they are also a little bit Wallenstein’s Piccolominis and countess Terzkys of the real world: devoted traitors, manipulators, and victims of intrigues.
Directed by
Helgard Haug
Daniel Wetzel
Cinematography
Martin Baer
Katharina Grossmann
Till Kind
Maximilian Preiss
Darnell Stephen Summers
Renee Trojandt
Philipp Weigold
Editor
Stefanie Saghri
Light
Sofie Thyssen
Music
Daniel Psimenou
Sound
Frank Böhle
Sound Mix
Dirk Schwibbert
Producer
Christian Beetz
Assistant Producer
Gaby Lingke
Commissioning Editor
Meike Klingenberg
Wolfgang Bergmann
Sales & distribution
- Press kit
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„Just in diesem Moment überraschen uns die aus dem Theaterbereich stammenden jungen Regisseure Hans Block und Moritz Riesewieck mit einem erstaunlichen Dokumentarfilm, der seit Monaten Publikum und Kritik auf den wichtigsten Festivals der Welt elektrisiert. Völlig zu Recht: Es ist, als würden einem die Scheuklappen weggerissen, als sähe man das, was sich seit Jahren direkt vor unseren Augen abspielt, zum ersten Mal unverschleiert... eine fesselnde ,Doku noir' mit höchstem Anspruch...Dieser Film müsste an allen Schulen gezeigt werden.“
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
17.05.2018
