Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

A life without cinema is possible, but pointless. True to this motto, Erika and Ulrich Gregor have been traveling all over the world since 1957 to find unusual films and bring them to Berlin. In an associative montage, film history, West German and Berlin contemporary history are combined with the Gregors' life today, flanked by the statements of many of their companions. Filmmakers such as Helke Sander, Jutta Brückner, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Rosa von Praunheim, Doris Dörrie, Michael Verhoeven, Edgar Reitz, Alexander Kluge, Gerd Conradt and Volker Schlöndorff talk about the influence the Gregors had on them personally and thus paint a vivid picture of film culture from the 60s and 70s, the New German Cinema to international independent classics. With archive material and film clips from 40 films such as The Chelsea Girls by Andy Warhol, The Girl from the Match Factory by Aki Kaurismäki, Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, Red Sun by Rudolf Thome or Hunger Years by Jutta Brückner, the film spans a wide arc, with Erika and Ulrich Gregor at its center. We take a journey with them through 70 years of film history and gain an insight into the everyday life of this important film couple, who have been married for more than 60 years and still work together every day - true to Bertolt Brecht's motto: "Those who are still alive do not say never".