The Cinema and the Wind and Photography

Synopsis

How should one define the relationship of documentary film to reality? Does it aim at authenticity or is it rather an “exile of reality”, a “foreign homeland of reality”, where the pre-filmic, stripped of its immediacy, comes to its own right in the first place? Where in its mis-en-scène would be the line drawn to a fictional film, if drawing a line would succeed at all? These are the kind of questions this film essay on the history and aesthetics of documentary film deals with in its seven chapters.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Hartmut Bitomsky
Directing	Director	Hartmut Bitomsky
Production	Producer	Werner Dütsch
	Co-Producer	Christian Petzold
Crew	Cinematography	Arthur W. Ahrweiler
Editing	Editor	Ann-Malen Witt
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