Himmel wie Seide. Voller Orangen

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Sky like Silk. Full of Oranges

Himmel wie Seide. Voller Orangen
Betina Kuntzsch
German Competition Documentary Film 2024
Documentary Film
Germany
2024
10 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

Picture postcards, travel brochures and holiday photos are all this merrily caustic collage needs to portray moods and desires between the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. In spring 1990, the first Interflug plane carrying GDR citizens touched down on Majorca. About the mediterranean colours of the island, the first-person narrator remarks in the voiceover: “We knew them from the postcards sent by our West German relatives. This was the West, this was West-West.” Ostensibly naïve, her recollections nonetheless develop an ironic undertone. However blue the sea shines in the photos, however loud the castanets play, the travel group with their East German money are never more than onlookers in this half-board paradise. Everything seems like an empty promise: the bursting oranges on the trees, the sumptuous breakfast buffet and the giant hotel pools.

Anke Leweke

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Director
Betina Kuntzsch
Script
Betina Kuntzsch
Editor
Betina Kuntzsch
Producer
Betina Kuntzsch
Sound Design
Urs Hauck
Score
Moritz Denis, Eike Hosenfeld
Animation
Betina Kuntzsch
Narrator
Valeska Hegewald
Nominated for: Gedanken Aufschluss Prize