IN DER FREMDE
DE 1967 – Director: Klaus Wildenhahn – Original language: German – Subtitles: None – Length: 82 min.
This film by Klaus Wildenhahn is a classic of post-1945 German documentary cinema. The North German provinces in 1967. Over the course of 10 weeks the filmmaker and his team observe a group of builders putting up a grain silo in the OldenburgLand. The workers are foreign to this area and they have just one goal: to quickly earn lots of money and then get out of there. The carpenters, concrete workers and steel fixers work in two shifts and, in turn, encounter prejudices from the local community. We discover what ‘manpower’ means and what it means to exploit it._IN DER FREMDE is not a film about industry but a social study in which the filmmaker meets the working class eye to eye. A key work that, in 1968, marked Klaus Wildenhahn out as the most forward-thinking documentary film director of West Germany.
Writer: Klaus Wildenhahn. Camera: Rudolf Körösi. Sound: Herbert Selk. Editing: Karin Baumhöfer. Production: Norddeutsche Film GmbH Hamburg. Producer: x.
