Farewell Joseph

Film director Andreas Kleinert belongs to the last generation of filmmakers that emerged in the former German Democratic Republic GDR Born in 1962 Kleinerts attitudes were shaped by the late 1970s and particularly by the 1980sa period of increasing disillusionment He wrote his thesis on Levels of Consciousness in the Film Poetry of Andrei Tarkovsky the late Soviet film director who made a name for himself in the preperestroika years with bleak films As Kleinert completed his film academy studies with his graduation film Leb wohl Joseph Farewell Joseph 1989 the Berlin Wall fell heralding the collapse of the GDR Kleinert won the main prize for his diploma feature film Leb wohl Joseph at the Munich International Festival for Film Schools The next year this remarkable blackandwhite Kafkaesque film of cryptic symbols and enigmatic metaphors was invited to compete at Locarno