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- SummaryThis colour documentary film reports about three committed city councillors from Rostock. They tirelessly take care of the needs of the labourers from the Warnow shipyard in Warnemünde. They uncover shortcomings in public transport, fight for better kitchen care in general, but especially for the necessary care in the late and night shifts, and also take care of childcare solutions for shift workers. The worries of the working people are revealed ruthlessly in interesting interviews, which the three MEPs try to summarise in a recommending report. Discussions with the plant management, the transport operators and the colleagues in the shipyard help to intervene in order to successfully implement the five-year plan.
- Shotlist0:00:00 Start of the city council meeting of the city of Rostock before GDR symbol and flags (semitotal) (original sound). Zoom backwards from the GDR symbol to the meeting room of the deputies (half total). Pan over the deputies (half total). View of the representative and meat seller of the shipyard Renate Sander next to Karl Kollisch (half near). Start of the session (half-total) (original recording) "On behalf of the chair I would like to welcome you, dear Members of Parliament, and guests most warmly. We welcome the deputies of the People's Chamber...". Zoom backwards from the welcoming ceremony to the deputies in the hall (half total). Conference management explained (half-total) (original sound) "For information. They all see the spotlights, in the context of the organization of a film about the activity of delegates of the city assembly of Rostock also in the course of this conference photographs are shot. Please apologize to the conference management for the resulting conditions". Laughter in the hall (half total). Title insertion: "VEB DEFA Studio for Documentary Films GDR 1976 shows: DEPUTY IN ROSTOCK". 0:02:05 Two men are preparing to have a conversation in the living room of Renate Sander (half total) (original sound) "Karl, you're combing your hair so beautifully...we're going to sit on the crumple". Renate Sander is added (half near) (O-tone) "Cigarettes are here...the flowers may stay, or, yes". Zoom on the deputy Karl Kollisch and the trade unionist Kurt Welgen (half near) (original sound). Comment: "You have come to compile the results of an investigation". Cut back to the called Renate Sander during the city council meeting (half near) (original sound) "It now follows the deputy Renate Sander, saleswoman in the consumer sales outlet Warnow shipyard and member of the permanent commission work, wages and social policy ...". Swing over Sander to the lectern (half total). Sander sits from (semi-near) (original sound) "Values deputies and guests. On behalf of the members of a temporary working group, which consists of members of the permanent commission for labour, wages and social policy, as well as trade and supply and members of the group of members of the Warnow shipyard, I would like to report here on our results of the investigation... (insertion of the saleswoman Sander in the company)... What was also new for me was that as a saleswoman I got in closer contact with the group of members of the shipyard and will be a permanent member in the future...". recut 0:04:05 Welder ignites the gas flame in the Warnow shipyard (semi-near). Shipyard workers mark a weld seam (semi-near) on the steel planks. Zoom backwards from a welder to the new ship being built on the shipyard site (half total). Circumcision. View of the shipyard's employees at shift change (half total). Panning over the faces of men and women during shift changes (semi-close). Zoom in on the long queue of working people on their way home and to the public transport at the shipyard (half total). View of the arriving and departing trains at the platform Warnemünde (half total). View from the pedestrian crossing to the station area and the shipyard behind it (half total). Cut over to the deputy Karl Kollisch during a conversation on the pedestrian bridge (half near) (original sound) "...most likely because there switches would have to be set". Interlocutor (half near) (O-tone) "Yes, yes, when the new station is ready in front of Warnemünde, then the train here only runs as rush hour, so in our opinion it would be possible that the trains would be laid out in such a way that the colleagues could only come to work from one platform and come home from work again. Then the problem would be solved...". Swing from Kollisch to the tracks (half near) (original sound) "Yes, the approach works wonderfully, there is now the departure...". "The colleagues all have to cross this bridge afterwards to get to the bus station and the new station...and this bridge is not suitable for that at all. In our opinion, it was built far too small". View of the shipyard workers on the bridge to the railway station (half total). 0:06:50 Cutting back to Kollisch with a shipyard worker at the bus station (half near). The union representative Welgen (O-Ton) asks from offstage "What else could be changed, the deputies would like to hear from you what else could be changed here with all the workers' professional traffic"? Werftarbeiter (Halbnah) (O-Ton) "The main thing is that it is written where the buses go...in the late shift there are enough buses...after the end of the shift we always make the connection to the bus". Swing over the arriving shipyard workers at the bus station (half total). Kollisch waves another shipyard worker to him (half near) (original sound) "Your problems here with the bus departure, what are there for special problems from your side that still need to be solved"? Werftarbeiter (Halbnah) (O-Ton) "From my side not, but also the late shift belongs to it. At the beginning of the shift, however, we always arrive 10 minutes late due to the timetable...". Colloquial "So the bus from your house would have to leave early". Shipyard workers indignant "Even sooner? We leave at about half past twelve, that's enough with the earlier departure...". Members of parliament, trade unionists, shipyard workers and representatives of the transport companies continue to discuss on the spot (half way). Welgen next to a bus "Colleagues don't know where the buses go, shouldn't there be signs everywhere on the buses? Most buses don't have any signs. We've already made a proposal before. Each driver has a black board and a piece of chalk, so he can write wherever he goes, that's the easiest thing. But they said at the shipyard that the signs cost too much to make, it costs several hundred marks...and we always follow the lead, and that has been going on for 20 years. These are things that could finally be changed". Welgen says goodbye to the group (half near) (original sound). 0:09:00 Bus driver comments on the problem at the bus station (half near) (original sound) "Today I drive like this, tomorrow I drive like this, I would have to have 10 or 12 signs in my bus alone". Trade unionist Welgen, on the other hand, says "The shipyard's colleagues said they made signs, and I'm just saying you only have to write your direction with chalk on it". Bus driver indignant "Oh, we didn't see any signs here...and we weren't told about it either". Welgen "It's not so bad if you write Doberan or Rostock or something on a blackboard". Bus driver gets excited "Why not make it as easy as it is elsewhere. The bigger ones, can't they afford to put a sign here saying "Doberan"? Then the matter would be settled, why should I write it every time, I'm not here in school that I have to wipe and write down again". recut to the meeting at Renate Sander's apartment. Kurt Welgen presents Renate Sander with the points (semi-close) (original sound) "Traffic problems, we would have to address all questions concerning workers' occupational traffic. I think especially of the commuters from the districts of Bad Doberan...so these routes of workers' professional traffic that run to Doberan...and where there are obviously still problems". Zoom on the presenting wels (semi-close). 0:10:15 Swing over the mouth of the Warnow into the Baltic Sea in the sunset (half total). Swing over the harbour and shipyard area in the evening light (half total). Redediting to a meeting in the men's hostel of Warnemünde with deputies and shipyard workers (half near) (original sound) "I have been accommodated here in the HDW since November, I was dismissed in October and had served 3 years in Rostock. I met a girl up here and now I'm up here and I started as a drill fitter at the Warnow shipyard, and I'm dependent on the accommodation here and I'm quite satisfied...". Backwards zoom of the speaker on Welgen and Kollisch beside him (half total). Swing over the triple room in the HDW (half near). Bohrschlosser weiter (halbtotal) "...what we don't like are just parts of the house rules to address the topic of women, that interests us all. If we get visitors from our girlfriends and have to send our girlfriend out at 10 pm...we don't like that at all". Editing for shipyard workers in the canteen of the HDW (half near) (original sound) "For me life is not over at 22 o'clock. If I behave sensibly, and I have a visit, then the house rules don't have to be so that I have to send my visit out at 22 o'clock...the visit has to pass the gatekeeper by 22 o'clock...that's...we are all adults after all". Zoom backwards from the resident to the listening representatives of the trade union, the shipyard and the city council (half total). Cut around to the room with the drill fitter (half total), he shows Kurt Welgen the house rules (original sound). Zoom on Welgen who is studying the house rules (original sound) "The visit is not allowed between 22 o'clock and 6 o'clock in the morning...this is the point that arouses all minds". recut 0:13:15 View of the Warnow shipyard at dawn (half total). A tug pulls a freighter out of the port area (half total). View of the landmark of the Warnow shipyard, the cable crane at dawn (half total). Circumcision. Parts of a new ship float down with the cable crane (half total). Comment: "Under the cable crane the slipway. Here ships are welded together and launched into the water, at the top of the crane gate, at a height of 60 metres, the crane operator channels are seated. The cable crane, an important basic means of the shipyard. Only when such equipment is running around the clock will the decision to build a ship in 5 years more become reality, so the shipyard management has calculated it...(look at the crane operator channels in their cabins)...a bill that cannot be made without the crane girls". Cut back to Renate Sander in her living room (half near). Schwenk zum narrating Karl Kollisch (Halbnah) (O-Ton) "Of course these women are not willing to be at the crane all the time, they want to move outside again. We know that is 60 meters high, and there are so imprisoned in a chamber where they then have to constantly watch their loads, or the commando driver, that one actually allows them this free time to get a little something, because these women have the same problems as those working down in the tool shop and the like more. At focal points they have actually been stimulated during this time when they are needed to "supply" them up. Circumcision. Crane driver in her cabin (semi-near). View of the working men in the darkness under the crane system (half total) (original sound of the signaller) "Six lift to 6, slowly one, stop. Water side stop...". View of the shipyard workers lowering the ship parts in the slipway (semi-near). Intermediate cuts by crane girls, instructors and shipyard workers (semi-near). 0:16:05 Plant director Willies in his report to the deputies (semi-close) (O-tone) "We first talked about the big tasks to be solved by our company until 1980, but we also know at the same time that we do not have a very favourable quota in our company, which means that we have to solve the bigger tasks without significant investments, so we have to solve them by intensification". View of cyclists at the gatekeeper's area with late shift change at 23 o'clock (half total). Comment: "Partial roofing of the slipway is a music of the future, one ship more by better utilization of the basic means". View (from below) of the slowly descending inclined lift at the crane system (half total). Late shift workers stream through the gate at the gatekeeper's lodge (half total). Crane operators leave the inclined lift (half total). Cut to Works Director Willies from the side (half near) (original sound) "But what we haven't solved yet is what has to follow, namely, accommodating the children, caring for the children in these shifts... perhaps you have some hints...(panning over the listening delegates at the table)... how one could touch and solve these questions"? Zoom in on the people's representatives at the table (half near). Karl Kollisch (Halbnah) (O-Ton) "...our company is not stubborn in this question, but if we have free capacities in our kindergartens or crèches, also the other companies have the possibility to accommodate their children there. And why should it not be possible in cooperation with the city council, or other companies within the city of Rostock, to accommodate now also children of our company there...(look at the listening director Willies)...I mean that must be coordinated now with each other and we just have to press with the city council into this question". Director Willies "Of course this will be possible Karl, in general we have not yet solved the question, late shift, night shift. The children have to be picked up at 16 or 17 o'clock, and that's not possible with a late shift. We can then only, if at all, that is another problem for the child himself to be picked up at 12 in the evening, or at night. Does it then make sense to "get the child out of sleep"? recut 0:19:25 Shipyard workers take a break (half total). Shipyard worker in the consumer sales outlet at Renate Sander (half total). Label "Stew peas 70 Pfennig" and soup cauliflower 20 Pfennig" (half total). Pending shipyard workers in the consumer sales outlet (semi-near). Workers dine in the small snack shop (half total). Cut to the living room of Renate Sander who receives her husband after work (half total) (original sound). Kollisch, Welgen and Herr Sander smoke their cigarettes (half total). Cut back to the small snack shop with Renate Sander in the shipyard area (half near). Young shipyard worker drinks from a milk bottle (semi-close). Circumcision. Swing over shipyard workers in front of a ship newbuilding (half total). View of the free-standing propeller in the slipway (semi-total). Transfer to cargo ships in the port of Warnemünde in the evening (half total). Swing from the cable crane system over the illuminated new ship in the slipway at night (half total). Welder on the outer wall of the ship (semi-near) (original sound). Intermediate cuts of welding work in and on the ship in darkness (semi-near) (original sound). Electric and inert gas welders at work (semi-near). Circumcision. 0:24:05 Welder buys a sandwich at a vending machine (half near). Swing over eating shipyard workers in the canteen (half total). Older shipyard worker has problems with a beverage vending machine (semi-near) (original sound). Working people eating and smoking in the canteen (half near). Kitchen assistant collects the plates and food leftovers (half near). View of the abandoned canteen during the night shift (half total). Redefining to the port area of Warnemünde at night (half total). Ferry "Willi Schröder" crosses the picture in the night (half total). Swing from the ferry to the harbour area (half total). Cut back to Renate Sander in the canteen area with work colleagues from the shipyard area (semi-close) (original sound) "...These meals which are taken here, we wanted to hear opinions how they like it, what can be improved, what can be changed? Maybe you can tell us something about that. For today, for example, "the food, everything's fine"? A shipyard worker at the table (half near) (O-tone) "You can't talk about good, you can't talk about taste, that was an emergency meal. But you can't always bring bread with you, you can't talk about taste. Oh, God, if I were to live on this all my life." Sander "Go eat regularly." Shipyard worker "During the day I don't eat at all, it doesn't taste good at all...that's just at night what you have in your body...(re-cut)...and what is thrown away here, lunchtime and during the day so, oh, it's a pity that it was still cooked". Cut to another canteen visitor (half near) (original sound) "It was a short time there it was a bit better, now it's over again, we only heard complaints tonight". Our work must not become worse, it should always remain the same and become even better...'. Young colleague (O-tone) "Yes during the day the selection is big, only the taste is not there". recut 0:28:35 Renate Sander talks to colleagues in front of the food vending machines (semi-close) (original sound) "And these are the vending machines here"? Colleague "And that's the only thing we have on the night shift." Sander, "Is that enough for everyone, or is it so the last one doesn't get anything?" Colleagues "That should be enough in and of itself...(pan to the automats)...have already looked there several times". Another colleague "How often do you put a mark in and get rid of the mark, or not at all now, so often it doesn't work, unfortunately". Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Mr President of the Commission, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, Mr President of the Commission, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Mr President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, Mr President of the Commission, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen. Cut to the round in the living room of Renate Sander (semitotal) (original sound) "I don't know if I can say very much about it, maybe a set of spare parts, if it comes to that, if it is so serious, then there are no spare parts for the machine to get. We used to have a mechanic from Berlin who looked after the machines, he always came from time to time...and now a colleague from the shipyard does it alone, but what can't be done doesn't work". Cutting to Sander with colleagues in front of the machines (half near) (original sound) "Well, it was nicer when we brewed the cups ourselves, we had a lot of work to do, so more to do, but we also had a lot of turnover. The worker had his nice coffee, but since then it has subsided, that is also a matter of taste". Colleague "Most people now take cocoa...for a while we also had some broth, an automatic broth, but it doesn't exist anymore". Colleague "A broth is always something beautiful, it no longer exists, nowhere". Cut into the canteen with Renate Sander (half near). Colleague "And in the evening there are always the leftovers from lunch, that is only warmed up, I don't think that's right". Sander "We have to deal with Schumann, that's where the lunch comes from...so they can't warm up twice, they can't, that's forbidden". Colleagues with soup bowls (semi-near) (O-Ton) "This stew, for example, are quite cold and I never got a hot one here". Colleague replied, "Well, he's still hot in the morning shift." recut 0:31:10 View of employees in the kitchen area (semi-near). Sander criticizes "The two colleagues criticized that the stew was not always hot, in the morning it would be good but not in the evening...". Kitchen assistant (half near) (original sound) "That's right, it's hot at 6 o'clock, then we have other dishes and it's taken off the fire, then it cools down". Colleague "stew, soup and bratwurst this does not work with a record". Cut to shipyard worker at the workplace (half near) (original sound) "And the supply in the breaks, if someone is there with the camera then there is service and one is quickly served...and in the late shift one stands 3/4 hour in the door and must wait until service comes". Re-cut to the discussion round with Renate Sander (half-total) (O-tone) "We have talked with the party group and yesterday in the collective about the fact that starting Monday a change is made, that then about 5 to 6 colleagues come in shifts, that everyone comes every 5 to 6 weeks, that is then a shift of working time for a full-time employee, which starts then only at ten to continuously at seven, there is indeed a lot of running around ... and we hope that with it then something is solved. And yesterday one colleague complained that there was no Bratwurst, one colleague alone, so hot Bockwurst, Bratwurst, then the hot soups, stew, that's too much". recut 0:33:05 Renate Sander in the cafeteria with her colleagues (half near) (original sound) "Eat sometimes election food". Colleagues answer "Only election food, that for 70 Pfennig is no food for us...also the food for 85 Pfennig is no good either". Sander "There's a lot of criticism." Werftarbeiter (O-Ton) "If you read the newspaper now, i.e. the supply at the Warnow shipyard, i.e. to be honest it was better years ago...and now nothing has changed in price but in quality". Comment: "Worker supply is part of the work culture, the division of labour demands specialist skills not only from the apprentice worker but also from the member of the worker supply. The best kitchens do not only belong in the hotel "Neptun" but also in the nearby Volkseigene shipyard... (view at the installation of the big propeller at the stern of the new ship)... for the apprenticeship work this applies 100 times more, as well as for the lignite conveyors, carbide burners, mine workers, steel casters. There are many questions in the one, all decisive question, about the real extension and application of the power of a deputy, especially when he is a worker himself... (Swinging on the propeller in contact with the wave)... the answers are found here, from here they come to the textbooks of the "working class". Swing from the screw to the controlling worker on the scaffold (half total). Night-time recording on the water past the Warnow shipyard (half total). Panning to the lights and sparks that become visible during the welding process at night (half-total) (original sound). A siren sounds (original sound). Cut back to Renate Sander with the colleagues in the canteen (half near) (original sound) "The night is over now, not. It's already 1/2 two equal". We want to go again, it's about time, the work calls". Everyone rises, clears the dishes and leaves the canteen area (half-total) (original sound). 0:35:50 Rod insertion: Camera H. E. Leupold. Sound Manfred Zielinski and Hans-Jürgen Mittag. Cut Angelika Arnold. Music Kurt Zander. Production Franz B. Romanowski. Dramaturgy Dr. Christian Hein and Anne Richter. Book Richard Cohn-Vossen and H. E. Leupold. Directed by Richard Cohn-Vossen. dimming 0:36:13 END
- TagsGerman Democratic Republic (GDR); Rostock; Warnemünde; Baltic Sea; representative of the people; trade union; deputy; consumer; Warnowwerft; people's own business (VEB); welder; shipbuilder; shift work; working person; bus; train; railway station; rush-hour traffic; Doberan; men's hostel; HDW; house rules; canteen; cable crane; slipway; Crane driver; plant director; work intensification; leisure time; break; nursery; late shift; work supply; night shift; drinks machine; kitchen staff; food supply; protest; displeasure; emergency food; election dinner; lack of spare parts; machine attendant; early shift; party group; collective; shift of working hours; criticism; work culture;
- Decade1970
- Production Year1976
- Release date22 Oct 1976
- GenreDocumentary
- Country of Production
- Actors
- PersonalitiesKarl Kollisch, Kurt Welgen, Renate Sander
- DirectorRichard Cohn-Vossen
- Producer
- CameraHans-Eberhard Leupold
- Original Clip IdentifierQ6UJ9A004M58