/ Cinema Quadrat / Movie / german / 15+ yrs /
Christopher Boekel´s movie follows the marching route of his father in 1941 through Ukraine and Russia to the front wrenches, only 60 km from Moscow. The movie is the attempt of a reconstruction based on diary entries, old photographies, harrowing reports of survivors and conversations with the filmmaker´s father.
Written and Directed by Christoph Boekel. Camera: Wladimir Beljaew, Rainer Komers. Editing: Sylvia Regelin. Production: Eikon-Film with ZDF 1987-89, in cooperation with the Central Studio for Documentary Film, Moscow. 75 minutes, 16mm color and b/w. Editors: Hans Helmut Hillrichs / Karla Krause.
Awards: Preis der deutschen Filmkritik, Duisburg 1989 | Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Preis, Internationale Leipziger Dokumentarfilmwoche 1989 | 26. Adolf-Grimme-Preis 1990, Preis der 'Marler Gruppe' | Erster Preis beim Robert-Geisendörfer-Preis 1991
Christoph Boekel is a director, author and producer of documentary films who frequently deals with the subject of war in his numerous films. He graduated from the Munich University of Television and Film and was a co-founder of the Documentary Film Working Group and the Munich International Documentary Film Festival.
Photos: from the family archive of Christoph Boekel