Films
GermanUnity@Balaton
Honeyland (GE:Honigland, HU:Mézföld)
‘GERMAN UNITY @ BALATON’ is a poetic impression of an extraordinary postwar history of East-Europe.
"Many people say that the Hungarian Balaton is the Hungarian Sea. But in my view it’s much more than that. There is some kind of softness and openness, as a landscape too, towards those, thereby all the Eastern-Germans, who have been flowing towards Hungary; it stays in their hearts forever. It does not matter how the water looks like today or tomorrow, these times worth more than four weeks of vacation, and it’s hard to put it in words. But I think the thing that You are doing here, and there are lots of sounds and pictures, as in a rug, so if we are going to take a look, we will seen, what this all has started. I think the fall of the Wall can be thanked to the sparkle of the Balaton."
"Many people say that the Hungarian Balaton is the Hungarian Sea. But in my view it’s much more than that. There is some kind of softness and openness, as a landscape too, towards those, thereby all the Eastern-Germans, who have been flowing towards Hungary; it stays in their hearts forever. It does not matter how the water looks like today or tomorrow, these times worth more than four weeks of vacation, and it’s hard to put it in words. But I think the thing that You are doing here, and there are lots of sounds and pictures, as in a rug, so if we are going to take a look, we will seen, what this all has started. I think the fall of the Wall can be thanked to the sparkle of the Balaton."
from Ulrich Grunert's interview
Credits
2011 - 78:30 - HDCAM
directed by
Péter Forgács
editing
Péter Sass
art consultant, camera and interviews
Gusztáv Hámos
music
Mihály Víg
Károly Cserepes
idea and consultant
János Can Togay
sound
Tamás Zányi
producers
László Kántor Uj Budapest Filmstudio
Cesar Messemaker Lumen Film
stories
Klaus Bobach
Ulrich Grunert
Dr. G.
Catrin és Dieter Hennecke
Rainer Liebold
Doris és Christoph Lohse
Manfred Schotte
narrator
Péter Forgács
special thanks to
Dávid Szauder
Anna-Lena Nowicki
Melinda Losoncz
Karin Fritzsche
Anikó B. Nagy
József Berta
Andrea Dunai
Ádám Masát
Claudia Müller
Robert Nagel
Conny E. Voester
Ede Müller
and
the Mácsai family
associates
Ágnes Berger
Barbara Bollwahn
Gusztáv Hámos
Hajnal Kálnoki-Lukovics
Conny Klauß
Ede Müller
Anna-Lena Nowicki
Krisztina Turna
history consultant
Kriszta Slachta
line producer
Zsuzsa Kulcsár
unit manager
András Burus
assistant
Bálint Forgács
translation
Beril Bobest
Miklós Bodóczky
accountant
Zsuzsa Groh
archives
Hungarian National Film Archive
OSA
BBC
DRA
BStU
M1
supported by
Hungarian Ministry of National Resources
exhibition project
.CHB
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
an Uj Budapest Filmstudio
and Lumen Film production
in association with ZDF
in cooperation with ARTE
commissioning editor Doris Hepp
© Uj Budapest Filmstudio
Lumen Film
2011
back to top> Péter Forgács
editing
Péter Sass
art consultant, camera and interviews
Gusztáv Hámos
music
Mihály Víg
Károly Cserepes
idea and consultant
János Can Togay
sound
Tamás Zányi
producers
László Kántor Uj Budapest Filmstudio
Cesar Messemaker Lumen Film
stories
Klaus Bobach
Ulrich Grunert
Dr. G.
Catrin és Dieter Hennecke
Rainer Liebold
Doris és Christoph Lohse
Manfred Schotte
narrator
Péter Forgács
special thanks to
Dávid Szauder
Anna-Lena Nowicki
Melinda Losoncz
Karin Fritzsche
Anikó B. Nagy
József Berta
Andrea Dunai
Ádám Masát
Claudia Müller
Robert Nagel
Conny E. Voester
Ede Müller
and
the Mácsai family
associates
Ágnes Berger
Barbara Bollwahn
Gusztáv Hámos
Hajnal Kálnoki-Lukovics
Conny Klauß
Ede Müller
Anna-Lena Nowicki
Krisztina Turna
history consultant
Kriszta Slachta
line producer
Zsuzsa Kulcsár
unit manager
András Burus
assistant
Bálint Forgács
translation
Beril Bobest
Miklós Bodóczky
accountant
Zsuzsa Groh
archives
Hungarian National Film Archive
OSA
BBC
DRA
BStU
M1
supported by
Hungarian Ministry of National Resources
exhibition project
.CHB
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
an Uj Budapest Filmstudio
and Lumen Film production
in association with ZDF
in cooperation with ARTE
commissioning editor Doris Hepp
© Uj Budapest Filmstudio
Lumen Film
2011