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The Architects + Glasgow 1980
Peter Kahane | 102 min | East Germany | 1990 | Fiction | 15
Eight architects trying to build a visionary project in a brutalist neighborhood in East Germany.
The architect Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with. This way, he reunites with former colleagues and friends – most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement. Together, they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic. However, their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors.
In German with English Subtitles
Before the main feature, we’ll be showcasing “GLASGOW 1980”, a half-hour documentary on how Glasgow would look in the 1980s after the redevelopment of its traffic system and the construction of new housing developments, proposed in the mid ’70s as ‘The Bruce Plan’.
Doors open 6.00pm
Pre-screening 6.20pm
Main screening 6.50pm