Video: “Novemberkinder” – A German Festival in New Zealand
Reunification was undoubtedly a stroke of luck for German film. Today, it provides material for countless narratives as a nearly inexhaustible quarry of stories, anecdotes and turned-over lives. A film festival now introduced these stories to the New Zealand public.
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Films like Goodbye, Lenin! and The Lives of Others told of the close yet oh, so far-away world on the other side of the wall and became unparalleled box office hits – around the world. Other films follow their protagonists – often ordinary people – on their new and unknown pathways in unified Germany.
The twentieth anniversary of the historic event of the “1989 German Revolution” was a good opportunity to offer the New Zealand public – 19,000 kilometres from the wall and the fall of the wall – an insight into the processes of change over the past twenty years. No other medium is better suited for this than film in Lord of the Rings country.
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A film by Anja Schoenborn
Films like Goodbye, Lenin! and The Lives of Others told of the close yet oh, so far-away world on the other side of the wall and became unparalleled box office hits – around the world. Other films follow their protagonists – often ordinary people – on their new and unknown pathways in unified Germany.
The twentieth anniversary of the historic event of the “1989 German Revolution” was a good opportunity to offer the New Zealand public – 19,000 kilometres from the wall and the fall of the wall – an insight into the processes of change over the past twenty years. No other medium is better suited for this than film in Lord of the Rings country.
