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GermanUnity@Balaton

Honeyland (GE:Honigland, HU:Mézföld)

‘GERMAN UNITY @ BALATON’ is a poetic impression of an extraordinary postwar history  of East-Europe.
            "Many people say that the Hungarian Balaton is the Hungarian Sea. But in my view it’s much more than that. There is some kind of softness and openness, as a landscape too, towards those, thereby all the Eastern-Germans, who have been flowing towards Hungary; it stays in their hearts forever. It does not matter how the water looks like today or tomorrow, these times worth more than four weeks of vacation, and it’s hard to put it in words. But I think the thing that You are doing here, and there are lots of sounds and pictures, as in a rug, so if we are going to take a look, we will seen, what this all has started. I think the fall of the Wall can be thanked to the sparkle of the Balaton."

from Ulrich Grunert's interview

 Credits

Credits


2011 - 78:30 - HDCAM
directed by
Péter Forgács

editing
Péter Sass

art consultant, camera and interviews
Gusztáv Hámos

music
Mihály Víg
Károly Cserepes

idea and consultant
János Can Togay

sound
Tamás Zányi

producers
László Kántor Uj Budapest Filmstudio
Cesar Messemaker Lumen Film

stories
Klaus Bobach
Ulrich Grunert
Dr. G.
Catrin és Dieter Hennecke
Rainer Liebold
Doris és Christoph Lohse
Manfred Schotte

narrator
Péter Forgács

special thanks to
Dávid Szauder
Anna-Lena Nowicki
Melinda Losoncz
Karin Fritzsche
Anikó B. Nagy
József Berta
Andrea Dunai
Ádám Masát
Claudia Müller
Robert Nagel
Conny E. Voester
Ede Müller
and
the Mácsai family

associates
Ágnes Berger
Barbara Bollwahn
Gusztáv Hámos
Hajnal Kálnoki-Lukovics
Conny Klauß
Ede Müller
Anna-Lena Nowicki
Krisztina Turna

history consultant
Kriszta Slachta

line producer
Zsuzsa Kulcsár

unit manager
András Burus

assistant
Bálint Forgács

translation
Beril Bobest
Miklós Bodóczky

accountant
Zsuzsa Groh  

archives
Hungarian National Film Archive
OSA
BBC
DRA
BStU
M1

supported by
Hungarian Ministry of National Resources






exhibition project
.CHB
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin

an Uj Budapest Filmstudio
and Lumen Film production
in association with ZDF
in cooperation with ARTE
commissioning editor Doris Hepp

© Uj Budapest Filmstudio
Lumen Film

2011
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