Documentary Films - Competition 2004 / Anderer Herbst / Germany, Poland 2004
This poetic documentary steeped in melancholy is a testimony of the director’s return to his native Poland. An exceptionally personal journey against the flow of time mixes memories and dreams with dismal slices of post-Communist reality.
A young filmmaker working in Germany returns to his native Poland by means of a visual verbal poem. Animated memories, dreams and words encounter slices of raw reality and together they form a melancholy testimony about his new-found home. “To me, this film means a return, an encounter and at the same time, a farewell,” confides the director. With the gradual alternation of shots underpinned by a poetic commentary, there is a strengthening of the feeling of scepticism felt when looking at the dismal reality of post-Communist Eastern Europe “suffering” from market economics.
19 min / Color, 16 mm
Director Pawel Siczek
/ Screenplay Pawel Siczek, Marion Neumann
/ Dir. of Photography Marion Neumann
/ Music Tassilo Männer
/ Editor Pawel Siczek
/ Producer Raik R. Böttcher
/ Production Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
/ Contact Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
Pawel Siczek (b. 1977, Warsaw) grew up in Libya and Switzerland. He has been studying documentary direction at the Film Academy in Munich since 2000. In 2001 he made the short documentary Country.
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