ETWAS TUT WEH

D 1979, D, SC Recha Jungmann, C Rüdiger Laske, Marian Czura, E Ilona Grundmann, Esther Dayan, M Frank Wolff, S Margit Eschenbach, Peter Klemens, Gerhard Waal, P Spree-Jungmann, Cast Simone Maul, Anja Burak, Hermann Schäfer, Recha Jungmann and the inhabitants of Welkers, Print colour, DCP from 16mm, 72 min, German OV , Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF e.V.

Recha Jungmann articulates the story that hurts her, in images. It’s a self-interrogation into home, the past, the rescued present, which aren’t part of her. She must reconstruct them from the ruins of the fragmented house of her childhood. Welkers, a village in the Rhön Mountains. A young girl of perhaps seven tiptoes and skips through the deserted house, lingers at open doors, roams through bushes to the stream. A teenager, maybe seventeen, with curious steps and a cautious tread, inspects now-useless objects in the house. Old magazines, postcards, photos from which one blows the dust until the faded happiness of better times appears. [...] The house fell apart after the war. But it was Fascism that destroyed it, by calling the father to war and labelling the grandfather an outsider for voting ‘No’ in 1933. In losing him, the village lost its spiritual centre; despite him, it consummated its connexion to the Greater German Empire. [...] Etwas tut weh is a film between genres. For one thing, there’s the highly subjective investigation of the past; for another, the flipside of that subjectivity: the plunge into the worst objectivity [...] a film that gently and insistently stimulates the five senses to politically grasp the history that is inscribed on the body. (Karsten Witte, Politik am eigenen Leib. Zu Recha Jungmanns Film Etwas tut weh, 1980)

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RENATE

D 1967, D, SC, C Recha Jungmann, Print colour, 16mm from Super 8, 13 min, German OV, Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.

The camera caresses Renate’s legs, and soon we find ourselves up close to Renate – now nanny to the filmmaker’s son – as a corpulent girl of 13. The way she pulls on her underwear, jumps over the stream, stands in the water, her dress wet. From the water come the stories; she begins to tell her love story, and this is all so intimate, so loving, so close, that we slip into the girl’s heart, and it’s impossible to act like voyeurs. We see only her, in close proximity, and so we can’t do anything but love Renate [...]. Made in 1967, and still just as touching, just as provocative, unsurpassed. (Doris Kuhn, Rote Küsse – FilmSchauBuch, 1990)

The digital restoration is funded by Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst.

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Acronyms
amer. American English
b/w Black and white
OV Original version
SUB Subtitles
+SUB electronic live subtitling (below the image)
INT Intertitles
Countries
AT Austria
FRG Federal Republic of Germany (historic)
BLR Belarus
DE Germany
CAN Canada
GDR German Democratic Republic (historic)
EGY Egypt
FR France
GB Great Britain
URY Uruguay
BRA Brasil
SWE Sweden
UKR Ukraine
PL Poland
IDN Indonesia
PRT Portugal
HRV Croatia
ECU Ecuador
HUN Hungary
AUS Australia
IT Italy
MEX Mexico
IND India
Recha Jungmann

Recha Jungmann studied in the 1950s at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Hannover and subsequently worked as an actress, e.g. at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt . 1968 she shot her first documentary film, Renate, which was screened and well received at national and international festivals. In 1972, she directed the short Two Right, Two Left, Drop One, which celebrated its world premiere at the 1st Women’s Film Festival of Toronto. From 1975 to 1978, she worked as an author and director for the ZDF programme Schülerexpress. Her fiction feature Etwas tut weh (1979) had its world premiere at Rotterdam Film Festival and was screened at the Berlinale in 1980 in the "Forum"-programme. Her next fiction feature Zwischen Mond und Sonne, had its world premiere at the Berlinale the following year. In 1981/82, Jungmann realised the three-part television mini-series Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter, which features both documentary and fictional elements. Jungmann continued to work from the early 1990s on for television, realising numerous television documentaries for ZDF, HR, WDR, SWF and more. In addition, she has served as a writer for the HR series “Bücher, Bücher” and developed screenplays for TV movies and reports for informational formats. Recha Jungmann lives in Frankfurt.

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