What happens when you knock on doors 25 years later hoping ghosts still live there?
About a journalist and his cameraman visiting East Germany, former GDR, 25 years later again after their journey which took place in January 1990, just between the Fall of the Wall and the reunification with West Germany, comparing the old pictures with the present of 2015 and meeting former interview partners a second time. An impressive work of time documentary showing seemingly surreal scenes about the changings of cities, industrial locations and lifes in different political and economical systems.
Editing
Split-screen 1990/2015 comparisons that hit like a gut punch
Direction
Ettlich's patience letting silence do the heavy lifting
Production
Miraculous preservation of Beta SP tapes from literal revolution
Director
Wolfgang Ettlich
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ettlich and his cameraman crossed into East Germany on January 2, 1990—technically still a separate country with border checks.
The film captures 'Ostalgie' before it had a name: that specific East German longing not for communism, but for the texture of a disappeared world.
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