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The Architects (1990) [N/A]

Release Date:
June 21, 1990

Original Title:
Die Architekten

Alternate Titles:
The Architects

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
DEFA

Production Countries:
East Germany | Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 102

Overview from TheMovieDB

The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with. This way, he reunites with former colleagues and friends - most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement. Together, they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic. However, their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors. As frustration grows, Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his family-life: his wife Wanda wants to leave for West-Germany.

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Production

Assistant Director:
Irene Weigel

Costume Design:
Christiane Dorst

Director:
Peter Kahane

Director of Photography:
Andreas Köfer

Editor:
Ilse Peters

Lighting Technician:
Klaus Sterz

Location Manager:
Horst Schmidt
Jörg Reichel

Makeup Artist:
Christine Steinfelder
Klaus Petzold

Original Music Composer:
Tamás Kahane

Producer:
Herbert Ehler

Production Design:
Dieter Döhl

Property Master:
Klaus Selignow

Screenplay:
Thomas Knauf
Peter Kahane

Set Decoration:
Werner Mai

Set Designer:
Heike Pfeiffenberger

Sound:
Andreas Kaufmann

Sound mixer:
Konrad Walle

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