PROMENADES ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP. UNE FANTAISIE FILMIQUE D'ALLEMAGNE
Frankreich/Deutschland 2003 – Director: Anja Unger – Original language: Germanund französisch – Subtitles: German – Length: 93 min.
After living in France for ten years, director Anja Unger returns to her home country Germany. She is searching for evidence of history in her own family’s past. Looking through a family album she discovers relatives she never met. One of them is her great-grandfather who worked as a postman during the Weimar Republic. Then there is a great-uncle who joined the SS early on. Another great-uncle committed suicide in Rostock, after Germany was divided.
There are many burning questions to be answered: Why do Germans always talk about the war, bur never about daily life during the Third Reich? What did her grandmother think, when she visited the freed concentration camps? What was Eastern Germany like in the years after the Re-Unification?
On her journey Unger comes to realize how strongly her family’s story is formed by history. In the conversations with her relatives, the past becomes living memory. Poetry by Paul Celan, Rainer Maria Rilke and Friedrich Hölderlin helps her find the way.
German title: Wege in der Dämmerung. Eine Filmfantasie aus Deutschland. Writer: Anja Unger. Camera: Anja Unger. Sound: Jens Ludwig. Editing: Pascale Mons. Music: Jakob Ilja. Production: Les Poissons Volants. Producer: Sophie Goupil. International Sales: see production company Distribution: see director
