GOEAST PRESENTS II SEPTEMBER 2012

SOUTH EAST PASSAGE / SÜDOSTPASSAGE

The moving image of the film follows the movement of the journey, the geographic thread through Southeast Europe from Berlin over Poland, the Czech Republic, and the Slovak Republic, over Romania and Bulgaria to the Black Sea. The journey continues by freighter to Odessa into the Ukraine and from there along the coast to its southeastern endpoint, Istanbul. It shows streets, markets, villages, cities, and architecture. The encounter with people and their places produces filmic miniatures. These contrast almost imperceptibly the new and the old; they give hints and become clear. After perestroika and the fall of the Berlin Wall the borders between states are more open, and yet they have become even more impassable in their actual effect. And they are invisible. Immense territories of states become blank spots on the political map, run-down areas that have been thrown into economic chaos. Unnoticed or denied by the international gaze, invisible power structures develop that make it even more difficult for people to secure their existence. It is no longer a matter of the old "heroes of the working class" but of the new heroes and heroines in the struggle for survival, who use their great courage and inexhaustible imagination to get by. They are also the ones who make the invisible borders passable.

Germany 2002
Director: Ulrike Ottinger

1. PART (128 Min.): WROCLAW-VARNA
Start: 4:15 pm

2. PART (142 Min.): ODESSA
Start: 6:45 pm

3. PART (93 Min.): ISTANBUL
Start: 9.30 pm

363 Min., German Version

Sunday, 23.09.2012; 4.15 pm; Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum, Frankfurt