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Die Schmerzen der Lausitz (1990)
Directed by Peter Rocha
Documentary · 58m
A film essay documenting the devastation of the Lausitz region. The Sorb writer Jurij Koch describes the destruction wreaked as a component in an act of ethnocide: "The end of a language; even if the step is appantantly an economic necessity in terms of furhtering the region, it signifies impoverishment, the excavation of an ethnic habitat - a restriction of human richness."
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Peter Rocha
- Writer
- Peter Rocha, Karl Farber
- Director of Photography
- Karl Farber
- Editor
- Ilse Gebhardt
Details
- Release date
- 1990-12-01
- Runtime
- 58m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany, East Germany
- Production
- DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme