I will not lose

2013

A Documentary Film by Sandra Kaudelka

In co-production with German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb).
In co-production with ZDF - Das Kleine Fernsehspiel.
With support from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

German Distributor: Farbfilm Verleih

World sales: Illumina Films, Holland.

SYNOPSIS:

The GDR may have been a small country, but it was a highly successful sporting nation. Director Sandra Kaudelka was herself one of its top athletes and at an early age became part of the GDR’s intensive sports program. Although wholly uninterested in sports, she was, much to her chagrin, discovered to be a talented diver. Her memories of the hated, brutal training sessions she underwent on a daily baisis still haunt her to this day. In this film she sets off in search of her athletic colleagues – all proverbial ‚great sporting heroes’ – and meets four people with very differnet biographies: Brita Baldus, three time European diving champion; Ines Geipel, who holds a world record in the relay; Olympic champion shot putter Udo Beyer; and Marita Koch, world record holder in the 400-meter-sprint.

The film’s nuanced juxtaposition of biographies and points of view provides detailed personal insights into both the GDR’s ‚sports miracle’ and German history – before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

CREW:

• Writer/Director: Sandra Kaudelka

• Producer: Martin Heisler

• Commissioning Editor: Christian Cloos

• Photography: Jenny Lou Ziegel, Hendrik Reichel

• Editors: Sandra Kaudelka, Vessela Martschewski

• Sound Mixer: Felix Heibges

• Sound Design: Daniel Engel

• Re-Recording Mixer: Alexandre Leser

• Music: Cassis Birgit Staudt
  
  

PREMIERE:

Berlinale 2013, Perspektive Deutsches Kino

FESTIVALS 2013

• • 42. Int. Studenten Film Festival der HFF Konrad Wolff "Sehsüchte" Potsdam

• • Filmkunstfest M-V, Schwerin

• • DOK.fest München

• • Filmfestival Sehenswert Budapest, Ungarn

• • ✩ nominiert für den Prix Europa 2013

• • Biberacher Filmfestspiele

• • Kinofest Lünen

• • Festival des deutschen Films Moskau & Novosibirsk, Russland

• • Input Festival Hilversum, Niederlande