Winfried Junge

Winfried Junge

Born: July 19, 1935
in Berlin, Germany
Winfried Junge was born July 19, 1935, in Berlin. After finishing schol in 1953, he started to study German philology at the college of education at Berlin's Humboldt university. In 1954, he was one of the first students to enroll at the new Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Furthermore, he published film reviews from 1951 to 1955. After receiving his diploma, he started to work for the DEFA studio of popular science films, at first as a dramaturgy assistant, then three years as the assistant director to Karl Gass.

Movies for Winfried Junge...

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Title: Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Character: Winfried Junge
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: Movie
From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn’t exist.
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... dann leben sie noch heute - Die Kinder von Golzow
Title: ... dann leben sie noch heute - Die Kinder von Golzow
Character: Himself
Released: February 16, 2008
Type: Movie
The unemployed businesswoman Elke in Golzow, the geriatric nurse Karin in Wuppertal, the first teacher of the class, Marlies Teike, and Gudrun, the former mayor of Genschmar, as well as their father, the long-time LPG chairman of Golzow. In the fourth part of the irrevocably last film about the children of Golzow: the agricultural machine fitters Bernhard and Eckhard and Dr. Manfred Großkopf, managing director of the Landwirtschafts-GmbH Golzow, which emerged from the LPG. His epilogue recalls once again a reunion of some of the former pupils at the kindergarten's Buddelkasten on the eve of the 1st anniversary of German reunification. Accompanied by a song from the Golzow school, which wants to call itself "School of the Children of Golzow" in the future, the camera leaves the village and reaches the Oder River with aerial shots, which flows through the wide plain of the fracture towards the sea.
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Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind... Die Kinder von Golzow - Das Ende der unendlichen Geschichte
Title: Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind... Die Kinder von Golzow - Das Ende der unendlichen Geschichte
Character: Himself
Released: February 11, 2006
Type: Movie
The first two parts of the 19th film are about five former pupils. Two of them already made themselves known through the "CVs" of 1980: Ilona, the electronics worker and later youth functionary in Frankfurt (Oder), and Winfried, the graduate engineer for electronic device construction, who was then also commander of the combat group of his company, the Gröditz (Saxony) pulp mill, and now lives temporarily unemployed in Augsburg. In addition to Ilona and Winfried, who were politically active, the new film portrays Jürgen, Petra and Christian. Their cinematic lives are shorter, because the documentarians had long lost track of them. Now, over 50 years old, Jürgen, initially trained as a painter and upholsterer and now a transport and warehouse worker in Manschnow (Oderbruch), and Christian, an agricultural machinery fitter and now an in-house technician at the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau in Berlin, were willing to be filmed once again.
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Eigentlich wollte ich Förster werden - Bernd aus Golzow
Title: Eigentlich wollte ich Förster werden - Bernd aus Golzow
Character: Narrator
Released: February 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Bernhard Oestreich, called Bernd, son of one of the leaders of the Golzow LPG, did not stay in the countryside, but also turned down the opportunity to graduate from high school in order to study. He should have become a professional soldier. Married with two daughters, Bernd went into big industry, became a laborer and is still as needed today as a foreman at Raffinerie AG Schwedt (Oder) as he once was at VEB Petrolchemisches Kombinat in the days of the GDR. Much has changed in his life, but what has remained is the work in three shifts.
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Jochen - Ein Golzower aus Philadelphia
Title: Jochen - Ein Golzower aus Philadelphia
Character: Narrator
Released: February 14, 2002
Type: Movie
About the son of an agricultural functionary who helped enforce the socialist order in Philadelphia in Brandenburg, then in Golzow (Oderbruch) and finally in Bernau near Berlin. Jochen therefore went to school in Golzow for only one year. He became a milker, was a border guard, married and lives with three children in Bernau. Just as disappointed with the GDR as he was with its fall, today he is even with all politics.
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Ein Mensch wie Dieter - Golzower
Title: Ein Mensch wie Dieter - Golzower
Character: Narrator
Released: February 13, 2000
Type: Movie
The portrait of someone who came into the class as a dropout and, as far as travel is concerned, later went the farthest of all. The career of a carpenter, enterprising go-getter and incorrigible optimist who always made the best of the changing situations in his life.
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Brigitte und Marcel - Golzower Lebenswege
Title: Brigitte und Marcel - Golzower Lebenswege
Character: Narrator
Released: February 18, 1999
Type: Movie
The tragic story of a fun-loving schoolgirl who was the first in her class to become a mother at seventeen, remained unmarried for a long time, worked as a poultry farmer and died of heart failure at the age of 29. It is also the story of her son, who after his apprenticeship in Golzow was unable to find work as a factory fitter and who is also the father of a disabled child.
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Was geht euch mein Leben an - Elke, Kind von Golzow
Title: Was geht euch mein Leben an - Elke, Kind von Golzow
Character: Narrator
Released: May 22, 1997
Type: Movie
The different life paths of former girlfriends from Catholic and Protestant homes respectively - one a draftswoman, the other a chemical laboratory technician - in two interrelated films, in which love, like the demands and attitudes to life in the change of its foundations in the process of the decline of the GDR and its accession to the Federal Republic of Germany, play a special role.
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Da habt ihr mein Leben - Marieluise, Kind von Golzow
Title: Da habt ihr mein Leben - Marieluise, Kind von Golzow
Character: Narrator
Released: February 16, 1997
Type: Movie
The different life paths of former girlfriends from Catholic and Protestant homes respectively - one a draftswoman, the other a chemical laboratory technician - in two interrelated films, in which love, like the demands and attitudes to life in the change of its foundations in the process of the decline of the GDR and its accession to the Federal Republic of Germany, play a special role.
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Die Geschichte vom Onkel Willy aus Golzow
Title: Die Geschichte vom Onkel Willy aus Golzow
Character: Narrator
Released: February 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Subsequent discovery of one of the students from the class, to whom in "Curricula vitae" was not yet dedicated a portrait sketch. What the smallest in the class knew how to make of himself. Why the agricultural machinist and father of two sons from his first marriage is called uncle by his third son.
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Vielleicht bin ich ein Don Quichotte - Winfried Junge und die Kinder von Golzow
Title: Vielleicht bin ich ein Don Quichotte - Winfried Junge und die Kinder von Golzow
Character: Himself
Released: September 30, 1995
Type: Movie
Documentary about documentarian Winfried Junge.
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Das Leben des Jürgen von Golzow
Title: Das Leben des Jürgen von Golzow
Character: Himself
Released: February 19, 1994
Type: Movie
The first life story of one of the "children of Golzow", continued beyond the "Wende" as an independent feature-length film, which tells of the career of the first hero of our first film, using the rich material available from Jürgen, who became a painter and upholsterer, and "his" Golzow, where he still lived at the time.
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Drehbuch - Die Zeiten
Title: Drehbuch - Die Zeiten
Character: Himself
Released: February 14, 1993
Type: Movie
The first cinematic review after the fall of the Wall and the end of the GDR. In the context of a reunion of the "children of Golzow" on the 1st anniversary of German unity and their joint trip to Hamburg also a workshop report documenting the thirty-year history of the Golzow Chronicle from the new German situation as well as the thoughts and feelings, hopes, fears and objective changes in the lives of now already 13 portrayed.
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Nicht jeder findet sein Troja - Archäologen
Title: Nicht jeder findet sein Troja - Archäologen
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 2, 1990
Type: Movie
(East) German-Syrian co-production about archaeological excavations in Syria.
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Gruß aus Libyen oder Grün ist eine schöne Farbe
Title: Gruß aus Libyen oder Grün ist eine schöne Farbe
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 3, 1989
Type: Movie
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From Us To Me / Vom Wir zum Ich
Title: From Us To Me / Vom Wir zum Ich
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 29, 1988
Type: Movie
This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions of working people in opposing social orders. Using the example of shipyard workers, fishermen, the brigade and family of a trade union active cook and unemployed person of various ages and professions in Newcastle on the one hand and a brigade of crane operators of the Warnowwerft and fishermen of the Warnemünde cooperative on the other hand, insights into the way of life and attitudes of people of our time are to be conveyed.