The Architects
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The architect Daniel 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. As frustration grows, Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his family-life: his wife Wanda wants to leave for West-Germany.
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Cast
19 people
Kurt Naumann
Daniel Brenner
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Rita Feldmeier
Wanda Brenner
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Uta Eisold
Renate Reese
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Christoph Engel
Ökonom Endler
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Wolfgang Greese
Günther Adam
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Hans-Joachim Hegewald
Albrecht Wischala
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Karl-Ernst Horbol
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Thomas Just
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Markus Kissling
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Roland Kuchenbuch
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Franziska Scharf
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Peter Kahane Director · Thomas Knauf Screenplay Tamás Kahane Composer
United States release October 26, 1993 · Produced in XG, Germany · Production Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe ''Babelsberg''
Production
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Production
Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe ''Babelsberg''
Production
XG · Germany
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Languages
Original title
Die Architekten
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
XG · May 27, 1990
Premiere · Nationales Spielfilmfestival der DDR
XG · June 22, 1990
Theatrical
United States · October 26, 1993
Theatrical
Germany
February 1, 1991 · Premiere · Berlin International Film Festival
XG
June 21, 1990 · Premiere · Kino International
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