Comrade Couture (2009)
Overview
This film undertakes a journey into the amazing parallel universe of East Berlin’s fashion designers and experts in the art of survival. For, in the midst of the constraints of life in the GDR, there existed a fantasy world where it was possible to dance to another tune, be individual and even provocative. The most important characteristic of this bohemian scene was one’s per- sonal style. But this certainly wasn’t something that could be bought off the peg in the GDR. In this parallel universe it was up to you to create your own individual image – with your own hands. This film tells the story of the desires, the passion and the dreams that were tried and tested, lived and performed in the shadow of the Berlin Wall.
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| Original Language | de |
| Popularity | 0.408 |
Directed By
Marco Wilms
Crew
Olaf Jelinski
Gunnar Dedio
Jan Heidebreck
Marco Wilms
Marco Voß
Hannah Leonie Prinzler
Dirk Seliger
Moritz Denis
Jörg Jeshel
Ramona Bergmann
Carmen Cobos
István Imre
Ina Kraus
Marlen Burghardt
Lars Barthel
Thorsten Minning
Christian Riegel
Tobias Fritzsch
Tobias Schaarschmidt
Eike Hosenfeld
Marco Wilms
Christian Schidlowski
Christian R. Timmann
Petra Gescher
Anneliese Pulst
Ulrike Knauf
Mark Witte
Marcus Müller
Katja Dedio
Robert Handrick
Sabine Klemm
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