Movie Details
Original Language:German
Production Companies:DEFAStudio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme
Der Auftrag
StarringGerry Wolff
DirectorJochen Kraußer
4 minDocumentary
Plot
This documentary reports on the master potter Otto Engelmann from Klingmühl who was commissioned to make black painted clay heads of Karl Marx in the spring of 1973 Engelmann briefly explains the individual work steps from mixing the casting slip to firing the clay heads and then painting them An old craft is vividly captured on camera and accompanied by original sou
