WIRE MAGAZINE'S BIBA KOPF writes about the film 'Mona Mur in Conversation' MONA MUR IN CONVERSATION Dietmar Post (Director),
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War, declares Mona Mur upfront in this film of her in conversation with Dietmar Post, was always her theme, the Cold War her reality. Seated before a large TV monitor that has just screened her recent rendition of the Brecht/ Weill song “ Concerning A Drowned Girl" to Gerhard Schiewe's excellent accordion accompaniment in a Berlin courtyard, she economically pencils in its history in the course of chronologically unfolding her own story. The location, she reveals, is the Bendler Block, formerly an administration building of Adolf Hitler’s Living Space in the East programme where various German resistance members were executed afterthe failed July 1944 attempt on the Fuhrer’s life. Clearly, Mona Mur doesn't play light. Mur was born Sabine Bredy in Hamburg in 1960 to a family who'd migrated acr...
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"Monks" makes terrific use of both primary source footage and stock material, it's warm, witty, idiosyncratic, and it situates its subjects in a definite context of time and place. And it raises fascinating issues of art/commerce/branding without ever being pedantic.
My mother, an Air Force brat, grew up in this world--as an American in Germany in the mid-60s. That time and place come through beautifully.
Absolutely superb film.
I will never, never never be
A TORQUAY.