Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful German directors. Having received numerous awards at festivals from jury members and critics, his films are also very successful with cinema audiences, even though they often do not show glossy romance but rather social reality. The artist, who was born in Gera in 1963 and grew up in Schwerin, has no problem being described as an East German director. He knows where he comes from, what shaped him, what and how he wants to tell people’s stories. The documentary follows the director through 2023 until the opening of the exhibition at the Potsdam Film Museum, which will honor him and his team with an exhibition and film series. The career, artistic work and social commitment of the successful director are gradually revealed in the portrait. The film shows Dresen’s complexity and his roots, which still shape him today: childhood and youth in the GDR, studying in times of upheaval, directorial debut during the fall of the Wall, holding political office and statements on escape, asylum or war. The film accompanies the director to his home editing room in Potsdam, to the island of Hiddensee to his friend Jens Quandt, to Schwerin on tour with Alexander Scheer and band and to Lake Schwielow with his sailing boat “Potemkin”. Numerous companions have their say, such as actor Axel Prahl, friend Jens Quandt, Dresen’s long-time editor Jörg Hauschild, screenwriter Laila Stieler, cameraman Andreas Höfer, actress Steffi Kühnert. They all talk about the person, friend and colleague and remember the intensive collaboration, combined with their friendship with Andreas Dresen.
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