Section: Homeland | Domownja | Domizna

HAVELLAND. FONTANE

Bernhard Sallmann

Germany, 2019, 109 Min

The colonisation of the Mark of Brandenburg by the Wends, the “struggle against the overpowering German culture”, Christianisation, Wendish traditions and everyday life, finally the commencing assimilation. Sallmann follows Fontane through a landscape that bears the marks of history. Enchanting images that nonetheless contain the traces of brute force.

Bernhard Sallmann transforms the historical line that Theodor Fontane draws in the third volume of his “Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg” (“Ramblings through Brandenburg”) into visual poetry: sunset sky and dawn, vast fields and meadows, cloud formations, trees in all their variety, birds and over and over again water, light and the seasons. Humans travelled this landscape and left behind paths, bridges, water locks, churches and monasteries, chimneys and ruins left behind by the industrial age. The latter also repeatedly features in the soundtrack, for example, when the noise of an aeroplane cuts through the calm. The idyll is fragile, or, in Fontane’s words, its other side is all the darker. In Fontane and Sallmann, two masters with a keen eye for detail have perfectly found common ground. GL

Filmformat
Blu-Ray | doc. | Farbe / Colour

Drehbuch
Bernhard Sallmann

Kamera
Bernhard Sallmann

Ton
Bernhard Sallmann

Schnitt
Christoph Krüger

Produktion
Bernhard Sallmann

Kontakt
Bernhard Sallmann
Schöneweiderstr. 19
12055 Berlin
030.6857675
bernhard.sallmann@berlin.de

Bernhard Sallmann -

Movies
DIE FREIHEIT DER BÄUME (2003, short, doc, FFC 2018)
DIE LAUSITZ 20 X 90 (2004, short, doc, FFC 2018)
TRÄUME DER LAUSITZ (2009, FFC 2018)

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