Length: any time (recommendation: 1/2 to 1 day)
Start / Finish: Golzov
At first glance, the small village of Golzow in the Oderbruch region is quite tranquil and inconspicuous. However, it is world-famous among documentary film experts, because the protagonists of the largest long-term documentary in film history come from here.
The filmmaker couple Barbara and Winfried Junge accompanied 18 children from Golzow from their first day at school until the time after German reunification, linking their personal biographies with everyday life in the GDR and the course of German post-war history. The fact that Golzow was chosen for the documentary was due to a recommendation from the then district school board of Frankfurt (Oder). A new central school was opened in the village at that time, which was intended to provide children from the surrounding villages with a ten-year school education and replaced the small village schools, as the filmmaker Winfried Junge's memories show. The long-term documentary provides very impressive insights into the personal biographies and the associated fates and crises of very typical GDR lives from 1961 to 2005, right up to their time as German citizens.
Some visitors to the documentation center “The Children of Golzow” in the village will certainly be able to draw strong parallels to their own biographies. This makes this documentary a living milestone in film and real history to this day.
sights along the route
- Filmmuseum Kinder von Golzow
- Gasthaus Wagner
