Free Country (Freies Land)
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Drama, Thriller // 2020 // 129 Min // Age recommendation from 16 years
Winter 1992, somewhere in the bleak, rundown expanses of northeast Germany: two police inspectors – one from the West, one from the East – are looking into the disappearance of two girls... And end up sinking deeper and deeper into the mire of the formerly divided Germany. A thriller with a sense of history.
In the winter of 1992, little of the blooming landscapes promised by Helmut Kohl are to be seen in the remote region of northeast Germany where the two investigators, Bach and Stein, have been sent. Two girls have disappeared. It is rumoured that they simply left for the West, but little of what is said sounds all that credible. A short time later, two horribly mutilated bodies are found, and then it comes out that the two girls are not the first young women of the village to disappear without a trace. The dissimilar investigators dig deeper and deeper into the meshwork of lies told by the locals. Bach, who knows every trick in the book, also has to deal with his thorny past as a former piece of the GDR's executive apparatus gradually coming to light, while Stein, who is noticeably less emotionally stable than his shrewd partner, has seemingly left the apparently alien and distant city of Hamburg for a country with its own laws. Director Christian Alvart has succeeded in creating a thought-provoking and exciting genre film with a sense of history.
Winter 1992, somewhere in the bleak, rundown expanses of northeast Germany: two police inspectors – one from the West, one from the East – are looking into the disappearance of two girls... And end up sinking deeper and deeper into the mire of the formerly divided Germany. A thriller with a sense of history.
In the winter of 1992, little of the blooming landscapes promised by Helmut Kohl are to be seen in the remote region of northeast Germany where the two investigators, Bach and Stein, have been sent. Two girls have disappeared. It is rumoured that they simply left for the West, but little of what is said sounds all that credible. A short time later, two horribly mutilated bodies are found, and then it comes out that the two girls are not the first young women of the village to disappear without a trace. The dissimilar investigators dig deeper and deeper into the meshwork of lies told by the locals. Bach, who knows every trick in the book, also has to deal with his thorny past as a former piece of the GDR's executive apparatus gradually coming to light, while Stein, who is noticeably less emotionally stable than his shrewd partner, has seemingly left the apparently alien and distant city of Hamburg for a country with its own laws. Director Christian Alvart has succeeded in creating a thought-provoking and exciting genre film with a sense of history.
Director: Christian Alvart
Cast: Felix Kramer, Trystan Pütter, Nora Waldstätten, Ben Hartmann, Ludwig Simon, Uwe-Dag Berlin
Production: Syrreal Entertainment (Berlin), Telepool (Munich)