Kümmel goes east
DE/PL (2011), 92min, XD-CamEX
DE/PL (2011), 92min, XD-CamEX
Director: Paul Hadwiger
Writer: Doreen Rechin
| Paul
Hadwiger
Camera: Anne Misselwitz | Paul
Hadwiger
Editing: Rune Schweitzer
Sound: Silvio Naumann
Production: Peter Roloff,
maxim film
Distributer: Basis-Film Verleih Berlin
Programme Manager: Birgit Mehler, (RBB), Beate
Schönfeld (MDR)
Funded by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, BKM, Filmbüro
Bremen, Filmfund NRW
Synopsis:
Living five years for a shopping center. Five years with its
developers and local residents. Five years between Germany and Poland. Five
years until the dawn of the New World. Hermann Kuemmel building a school house in
Nicaragua. That was in the '80s. Today the born Hessian is working in Rzeszow,
east Poland. He's building the NEW WORLD shopping center. At Kuemmel's side
stands Polish manager Viola Wojnowski, who negotiates with trade partners and
financiers. But she doesn't want to continue living in Poland - she's having
her dream house built in the German capital. Investor and art collector Dr.
Erich Marx works in the background. The shopping center project is
controversial amongst inhabitants of the local prefab estate where it is to be
built. But contracts have been finalized and construction vehicles are rolling
in. Director Paul Hadwiger and his team followed the creation of the shopping
center over five years. He encounters developers and inhabitants, pursues their
stories. Despite their differences, all concerned are united by one question -
that of how one wishes to live.More: http://www.maxim-film.de/sonderfilm.php
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