The Bought Dream

portrays the Bruder working class family whom she met during her time as a social worker in the Märkisches Viertel Equipped with a Super8 camera by Helga Reidemeister the family had already begun filming their everyday life independently in the fall of 1969 However when together with Reidemeister they looked through the fourhour material at the editing table in the summer of 1974 they realized that it depicted the familys problems only superficially and left the social context out of the picture Reidemeister who had not yet intervened in the film shooting then spent a lot of time with the family and documented everyday life together with them The result was a multilayered mixture of family selftestimony and reflection on social relationships