Erzählungen eines Kinogehers – Werner Dütsch

Originaltitel (DE) Erzählungen eines Kinogehers Weiterer Titel (eng) Reminiscence of a Moviegoer ORIGINAL Länge: 100 min Format: DCP Bild/Ton: Farbe, Dolby 5.1 Aufführung: Aufführung (NL): 02.02.2025, Rotterdam, IFF Erzählungen eines Kinogehers Deutschland 2024/2025 Dokumentarfilm mit Animationsteilen For Erzählungen eines Kinogehers, filmmaker Christiane Büchner works extensive interviews with the late Werner Dütsch, a commissioning editor at the German television station WDR, and massively influential figure in postwar West German film culture, into a moving portrait of cinephilia through time. Werner Dütsch, a commissioning editor at the German television station WDR, was, for a time, one of the most influential figures in the film culture of the nation – and surely recognisable to many an older regular of IFFR! In Rotterdam, Dütsch was either looking for films he could buy for TV, or presenting co-productions. Together with his colleagues at the WDR film department, he became a mentor to generations of German cinephiles due to the film historical documentaries they produced, as well as thanks to the directors they cultivated for the television masses, including luminaries like Johan van der Keuken, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, but also genre movie axioms like Joseph H. Lewis and Jack Arnold. Shortly before his death, Christiane Büchner conducted several days of interviews with the stalwart figure which she has worked into a miniature history of post-war West Germany and its film culture, brought to life with pictures and animated re-imaginings of the cinema Dütsch loved and made so many of us believe in. – Olaf Möller Christiane Büchner Christiane BÜCHNER (1965, Germany) has been working as a freelance author and director of cinema documentaries since 2000. She studied Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts and Television, continuing her studies in Film at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. For her diploma thesis, an interactive project for a virtual studio, she received the Best of 3D Animation Award in the Mixed Realities category at Photokina. In 2005 she received the Gerd Ruge Scholarship for her film pereSTROIKA – umBAU einer Wohnung (2008). Her film FAMILY BUSINESS (2015) received the award for best documentary film NRW in 2016. 
She has been a member of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen programme committee since 2001. Since 2017, Buchner has also been a member of the FFA award committee for Screenplay and Production.
She is also the co-founder of the LaDOC film network. Besides her work as a filmmaker, she has taught film and other forms of time-based media since 2001. Filmography Das Haus der Regierung (2002), pereSTROIKA – umBAU einer Wohnung/pereSTROIKA – Reconstruction of a Flat (2008), Warschau Frankenstein/Warsaw Frankenstein (2012), FAMILY BUSINESS (2015), Entschieden Psychologisch!/Decidedly Psychological (2019), Erzählungen eines Kinogehers/Reminiscene of a Moviegoer (2025)