- 5 June 2016 at Filmkunst 66 from 5 pm -
We invite you to experience Ilja Richter first as a human being, a seeker, a border-crosser in "Gott und die Welt", a film by Ravi Karmalker, and immediately afterwards as the director of the documentary "Hotel Bogota - Eine einmalige Geschichte".
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5:00 pm - Screening GOTT UND DIE WELT - 45 min.
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5:45 pm - Screening HOTEL BOGOTA - 45 min
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6:30 pm - Talk with Ilja Richter in the cinema - 20 minutes - moderated by Shelly Kupferberg
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6:50 pm - A small reception in the upper foyer
Ilja Richter stands at the centre of the third part of the Grenzgänge trilogy. He brings to a close the film series of prominent actors and entertainers who confront very personal questions of life and values. These are journeys inward, to the fears, hopes and realisations of people we otherwise know only in their roles on screen.
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The author and actor Ilja Richter has Jewish roots. His mother was Jewish, though without any particular religious ties. The family wanted to be a normal German family. Today, in his early sixties, Ilja Richter senses that something there remains unresolved. This becomes especially clear when he meets his old friend Ilse — she too is Jewish. When he visits her, he feels "somehow Jewish". But what exactly does that mean? With this question, Ilja Richter sets out to trace Jewish life in his home city of Berlin. Whether at a dance class where traditional dances are rehearsed, out and about on a kosher inspection, at a service in an Orthodox Jewish community or during a young girl''s preparation for her bat mitzvah — again and again Richter encounters questions that move him deeply on a personal level, and that at the same time show him how colourful and diverse Jewish life in Berlin is.
Hotel Bogota - Eine einmalige Geschichte
For almost 50 years the Hotel Bogota in Berlin-Charlottenburg was an institution. The small hotel at Schlüterstraße 45 — built in 1911 — was a house steeped in history. Helmut Newton trained here under "Yva", then the most famous fashion photographer in Germany. Newton later said this time was the finest of his life. During the Second World War the building was the seat of the Reichskulturkammer under its head Hans Hinkel. Here all the celebrities of the German entertainment industry of the day had to audition. After the war, the Allied powers set up their denazification authority at Schlüterstraße 45. Hanna Schygulla, Dieter Hallervorden, Dani Levy, Jim Rakete and many others bring the past back to life. With the hotel''s closure in December 2013, Ilja Richter also sheds light on the sweeping changes that have been observable in Berlin for years. And anyone who still cannot get enough of Ilja Richter can accompany him to the
Neue Kammerspiele Kleinmachnow
and watch a gem from the year 1962, with Ilja Richter as a white mouse. "Schwarz auf Weiß" is a parable about racism. The white mice live on the first floor and the grey mice in the cellar. One day Ilja Richter, as a little white mouse, decides to climb up to the attic and ask the good Lord why white mice are something better than grey mice. The good Lord must surely know, for every evening he lets the light come on. The stairwell lighting. In the SFB television film (written by Ephraim Kishon), directed by Hanns Korngiebel, one sees the crème of Berlin''s theatre actors: Edith Hancke, Horst Bollmann, Herbert Grünbaum and Ilja Richter at the age of nine.
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8:00 pm - Conversation with Ilja Richter - moderated by Shelly Kupferberg
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8:30 pm - 10:00 pm Screening "Schwarz auf Weiß"