LAND OF UNITY –
OR MAYBE NOT?
(44 min., NDR broadcasting network, 2019)
(44 min., NDR broadcasting network, 2019)
(44 min., NDR broadcasting network, 2019)
30 years after the Berlin Wall came down, why is there still an east and a west in Germany, a your way and ours? What’s the reason? And what could be done to change it? The documentary LAND OF UNITY – OR MAYBE NOT? (original title: EINHEITSLAND – ODER DOCH NICHT?) sets off across eastern and western Germany on a search for clues. The film profiles people who yearn to have East Germany back again, it encounters the winners and losers from reunification.
Screenplay/Director: Birgit Wärnke
Camera: Martin Kobold
Editor: Stephan Haase
Commissioning Editors: Jochen Gräbert and Marc Brasse
Executive Producers: Carsten Rau and Hauke Wendler
Production: PIER 53 Filmproduktion
“This intensive documentary uses flashbacks into history to report on the state of affairs in the Federal Republic of Germany.”
(TV Movie)