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Impressum / Kontakt

ND - DEUTSCHES NEULAND

(DE 2004) 65 mins / colour / Digi-Beta / 16:9

Dir.: Sandra Prechtel and Francois Rossier

Producer: Andrea Ufer

Coproducers TV: MDR

FESTIVALS:

Dokumentarfilmfestival Leipzig 2004

Achtung Berlin 2005

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2005

SYNOPSIS:

A massive building extends along the Strasse der Pariser Kommune in Berlin's district of Friedrichshain. Once the GDR's Media Palace, the remaining neon signs on the roof have been switched off long ago. They form the letters NEUES DEUTSCHLAND (New Germany), name of the state’s official newspaper. Inside, time appears to be at a standstill. This documentary is a portrait of an uncanny place suspended in time where the GDR continues to dwell in odds and ends from another era. The past sheds its yellow neon light on those who have built their little kingdoms in the vacated niches. No longer editorial offices of the Neues Deutschland daily paper, but a rather bizarre melange of German realities, past and present. A world apart, threatened to vanish under the unified German efforts of renovation.