| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1983. |
| Summary |
This documentary tackles a difficult and politically sensitive East German environmental issue taking place in the early 1980s. South of Leipzig, villages are being demolished to make way for open-pit mining. For almost four years, the film crew follows two of these communities and, as the landscape changes, so do the lives of the people. It is a struggle for the older generation, in particular, to leave their familiar homes, but some of the younger people enjoy the unaccustomed comforts of newly-built apartment buildings. This film calls on allegories about the loss of homeland and the destruction of nature in the name of progress and prosperity; the birth of baby Manuela represents the hope of a new beginning. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
German language.
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Environmental sciences.
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Documentary films.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Tetzlaff, Kurt, film director.
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DEFA Film Library (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
12203022 Kanopy |
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