Banned by communists for telling the truth about dying trees. Bureaucracy vs. nature: nature loses.
The film reports on the massive forest damage in the Ore Mountains on the Czech-German border and the desperate struggle of foresters and residents to save this landscape. Hope, doubt and an ever-increasing ecological catastrophe are pitted against a blind and deaf doctrinaire state power that denies the facts.
Direction
Lippmann's fearless confrontation with state power.
Editing
Tight 38 minutes that hits harder than feature-length docs.
Director
Günter Lippmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Ore Mountains became ground zero for 'Waldsterben' (forest dieback), a crisis that helped galvanize Green movements across Eastern Europe.
State censors initially approved the film, then banned it after realizing audiences connected the dying forests to the dying regime itself.
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