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Docudrama about the first generation of so-called Gastarbeiter in Germany. Carla and Maria Grazia meet for the first time outside the crematorium, where they are given the ashes of their father Agostino Rossi. He came from Tuscany to Wolfsburg in the 1950s to work at Volkswagen. He left his family behind in Italy and started another in Germany, without one knowing about the other. The film links the personal search of two half-sisters for their father’s past with interviews with former Gastarbeiter and historical archive material from the time of the Wirtschaftswunder [economic miracle] which attracted hundreds of thousands of mostly young Italians to Germany.
Director
EDUARD ERNE (*1958) studied acting and direction at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna and at the Mozarteum Salzburg. He works as a director and TV journalist in Germany and Switzerland.ULRICH WALLER (*1956) is a writer, director and since 2003 has been artistic director of the St. Pauli Theatre in Hamburg. In 2015, Erne and Waller’s film Der vergessene Krieg was shown at FILMFEST HAMBURG DANIA HOHMANN (*1974) is an actress and theatre director. She has worked at the St. Pauli Theatre in Hamburg and at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, among others.Info
Amara terra mia - Mein bitteres Land
Fiction Feature
German, Italian
Televisionen//FF2020
Germany, Italy
2020
82 min
OV with German subtitles
Ulrich Waller, Eduard Erne, Dania Hohmann
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Juliane Kirchberger, NDR/ARTE: j.kirchberger@ndr.de und Jan Philip Lange, JUNIFILM, jpl@junifilm.de
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