Ein Herbst im Ländchen Bärwalde

About 20 kilometers south-east of Jüterbog lies the hamlet of Bärwalde. This is where Gautam Bora, an international student at the Babelsberg Film and Television Academy (HFF) in the early 1980s, shot his film about the three generations of the Balke farming family. The family members reflect on their work in the LPG and the unequal gender relations in everyday village life. The attention that Bora and his cameraman Marwan Salamah pay to inconspicuous details lends Ein Herbst im Ländchen Bärwalde (An autumn in the Bärwalde countryside) a subtle poetic quality. Hands, tools and crops can be seen again and again - images that tell of life in Bärwalde just as impressively as the interviews that accompany them and which Bora comments on by making comparisons with his home country of India.

Ein Herbst im Ländchen Bärwalde: Diploma film / Director: Gautam Bora. - Potsdam: Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen der DDR, 1983.
Digitization and restoration by the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, supported by the Förderprogramm Filmerbe, financed by BKM, Länder and FFA.
2023 / 2024 digitized and restored in 4K resolution at PHAROS - The Post Group on behalf of the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
The project was made possible by the Förderprogramm Filmerbe, financed by the Beauftragte für Kultur und Medien der Bundesregierung, the federal states and the Filmförderungsanstalt.