Cast/Staff
| Screenplay Director Kamera Montage |
Ulrike Ottinger |
| Narrator of the German version |
Hanns Zischler |
| Narrator of the English version | Viktor Pavel |
| Oskar Pastior narrates own texts and texts by Gellu Naum Sissi Tax narrates texts by Anna Achmatova |
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| Translators |
Boris & Ada Raev Oana Kitzu, Dejan Jovanovic´ Maria Moira, Serpil Turhan Finbarr Morrin Jutta Prasse |
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| AVID-Editor | Bettina Blickwede |
| Mixing | Christian Wilmes |
| Assistant Producer | Sean Runge |
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| "The Specimen", based on a grotesquerie of Valentin Katajew | |
| Narrator | Hanns Zischler |
| Director of Museum | Raymond Wolff |
| Philistine | Thorsten Heidel |
| Visitor of Museum Paperboy |
Heidi von Plato |
| Visitor of Museum Lady |
Eva Ebner |
| Visitor of Museum Driver Citizen |
Boris Raev |
| Visitor of Museum Worker with placard |
Sissi Tax |
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| Singer |
Oana Kitzu |
| Accordion | Dejan Jovanovic´ |
| accompaniment on the Welte-Cinema-Organ, Filmmuseum Potsdam |
Helmut Schulte |
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| Costumes | Gisela Pestalozza |
| Make-up | Cornelia Wentzel |
| Lighting and Sound | Stefan Gohlke |
| Music taking | Lilly Grote |
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| With Thanks to: Rainer Herrn, Ada & Boris Raev, Katharina Sykora, Hanns Zischler, Bettina Böhler, Susanne Enderwitz, Stefan Engelkamp, Ulrich Ströhle, Handan Ýpekci, Filmmuseum Potsdam, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz—Ethnologisches Museum—Musikethnologische Abteilung—Susanne Ziegler and Herr Gandert |
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| Commissioned and supported by Documenta 11 Supported by Hessische Filmförderung  |
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