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Anderson

Sascha Anderson was not only the star of the East Berlin artist and bohemian underground scene, he was also a zealous Stasi IM (informal informant). In ANDERSON, the second part of a planned trilogy, the filmmaker Annekatrin Hendel reconstructs ...

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"After a quarter of a century, Sascha Anderson is still a mystery:” This statement is by the director of the film about her protagonist. It’s been twenty-five years since Sascha Anderson, a one-time star in the East Berlin bohemian underground scene, was unmasked as an unofficial informant for the Stasi. In ANDERSON, the second part of the planned trilogy about his betrayal, Hendel makes an attempt to reconstruct this story – knowing full well that a recording of the objective act is not going to solve the mystery. The director quite literally provides a stage for the Anderson, though many would say he doesn’t deserve one: in the studio she reconstructs Ekkehard Maaß’s kitchen, the main meeting point for Prenzlauer Berg’s underground art scene. The kitchen is recreated using original furniture from Maaß’s apartment – from the kitchen table to the pictures on the wall to the coffee cups. In this place of memory Anderson starts to talk. In the film his former comrade-in-arms, friends and lovers share the screen to illustrate the conflicting and complicated narratives on this history. Some have forgiven him and moved on, others still despise him. And Anderson himself? At the very beginning he speaks about the necessity to align his self and public image. This is what most interests Hendel: the strategies that people use to integrate the emotional and psychological aftershocks of treachery into their new lives and move on.

Sebastian Markt

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  • OV Original version
  • OmU Original with German subtitles
  • OmeU Original with English subtitles

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