Borderland
Germany, Poland2020documentary97'Konkurs polski (2021)
After thirty years Andreas Voigt returns to the region along the Oder and the Neisse Rivers to check what inhabitants of the Polish and German borderland think about the borders, the transformation and their neighbours today. Flowing slowly like a wide river through a picturesque landscape, his film brings out traces of the land’s rich past. But history serves just an excuse here. For the German director, the people are the most important – old and young, locals and exotic new arrivals. Some are nostalgic about the Cold War times of glory, others are looking for their own place in a borderless Europe without any complexes.
- directed by
- Andreas Voigt
Director and author of documentary films He was born in 1953 in Eastern Germany. He studied physics in Krakow, economics in Berlin and Film Directing at the University of Film and Television in Potsdam. He has worked as an editor and screenwriter at the DEFA Documentary Film Studio. From 1987 to 1991 he was a director and screenwriter at DEFA STUDIO in Berlin and then worked as a freelance film director, screenwriter and producer for television stations, film producers as well as private and governmental organisations.
- cinematography
- Marcus Lenz, Wilkerling Maurice, Wojciech Ostrowski, Andreas Voigt
- script
- Andreas Voigt
- music
- Mario Peters, Jean Louis Matinier
- editing
- Ina Tangermann
- production
- Barbara Etz (Barbara Etz Fimproduktion), Klaus Schmutzer, Kazimierz Beer
- Photo
