Coal-Country Song. Gundermann

Germany2019documentary98'Konkurs DocFilmMusic (2020)

"Bob Dylan from a mine", is how one of the most famous bards of the German People’s Republic, who was still a star after the unification of Germany, was dubbed. Gerhard Gundermann was a worker from the industrial town of Hoyerswerda as well as an idealist who genuinely believed in the political system of that era. Many years later, people who were close to him reminisce about his music and ambiguous attitude to communism, while his pieces are performed by the local choir. "Gundi", who turned to ecology at the end of his life, became the icon of the change that affected his industrial region and the entire country.