Goethe on Demand

Director: Janna Ji Wonders
Year: 2020
Genre: Documentary
Length: 110 min.

En excursion café on Bavaria’s Lake Walchen becomes the starting point for this female-centred family epic spanning four generations of women. It is a cinematic journey into a century of self-realisation and sense of duty, and the search for one's roots and destiny.

Part of the annual series "City, Country, River" 

The film series City, Country, River takes us through the diversity of German cities, villages and landscapes with a selection of twelve feature and documentary films. The films focus on regions and places away from the well-known big cities, inviting viewers to take a multi-layered look at the realities of life in Germany.

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