Shortly after the once East Prussian, now Russian city of Tilsit, the Memel divides into a delta.
The widest branches of this delta, Ruß and Gilge, finally flow into the Curonian Lagoon. The river landscape is characterized by high soil moisture. Only a complicated drainage system allowed cultivation. The Gilge was also an important waterway. Today this drainage system is falling apart, the Gilge is silting up and the landscape is being renaturalized. Read More »
Director Volker Koepp travels the Lithuanian shore on the border to the Russian enclave. Germans and Lithuanians have always lived here.Read More »
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The land between the Vistula, Volga, Baltic Sea, and Black Sea was known in ancient times as Sarmatia. German documentary filmmaker Volker Koepp travels through the region that is now Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine. He follows the course of the great rivers to the Curonian Lagoon on the Baltic coast and paints a detailed picture of a region that has almost disappeared from our consciousness today. In the process, he meets protagonists from earlier films – and follows the poems of a man who explored and experienced the landscape himself: the German poet Johannes Bobrowski, who was born in Sarmatia and knows the country very well. Bobrowski explored the area on many journeys and with open eyes; he incorporated his impressions into his literary work.
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Scenes from everyday life in Afghanistan. A film diary of sensitive intensity about what is new in the life of the people and which exists side by side with backwardness and attempted restoration of outdated structures.Read More »
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“It’s a story about a country on the edge of Europe, bordered by the Baltic Sea and lashed by the north winds. Once a powerful state of northern Germany in the 16th Century, dispossessed of half its territory during the Napoleonic Wars, it regained its power in the 19th Century under William I.Read More »