Die Verweigerung

Running time: 1996 | 29' | GER

In the mid-1990s, a television station attempted to recruit eight East German filmmakers for a series on the Blessing from the Sermon on the Mountain. Foth chose the “Silent” (“Die Sanften”) and made the film “Die Verweigerung” (“Refusal”) about a relationship between two men in a GDR prison. Who refuses to whom, when, where, how, and why in this film, surprises and questions hasty reevaluations.

Authors:

  • Jörg Foth

    Born in Berlin in 1949. Graduated from directing at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam. In 1977 he started working as assistant director in GDR television, after which he worked for the DEFA film studio in the same capacity, to later become a director of feature films there. In 1985 he also started making documentary films at DEFA. Since 1991 he has been a freelance director. He has directed several dozen feature and documentary films, as well as theatre plays.

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