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THE LAND WITHIN ZWEITLAND

Sat 18 Jul 16:00
Abazija Cinema, Palić THE LAND WITHIN
  • 01:52
Germany, Italy, Austria 2025
Selection : Country in Focus
Director: Michael Kofler
Writer: Michael Kofler
Cast: Thomas Prenn, Aenne Schwarz, Laurence Rupp, Francesco Acquaroli, Andrea Fuorto
Cinematography: Felix Wiedemann
Editing: Florian Miosge
Costume designer: Monika Buttinger
Sound: Niklas Kammertöns
Production: Starhaus Filmproduktion
Producer: Wasiliki Bleser
Filmography: 2025 The Land Within / Zweitland 2010 The Retreat (short) 2010 The Visit (short) 2007 Tage des Hundes (short)
South Tyrol, 1961. The northern Italian region with a German-speaking minority is shaken by a series of separatist bomb attacks. Free spirit Paul wants to escape the narrowness and lack of prospects of his little village and study painting in Munich. When his hardliner brother, Anton, becomes a fugitive terrorist, Paul reluctantly puts his own plans on hold to support his brother’s wife, Anna, and their little son on the small farm. As ethnic tensions and police repression in the village grow, Paul gets drawn into a downward spiral of violence and toxic masculinity. Anna openly condemns the radicalization of her husband but increasingly clashes with the patriarchal structures of the time. When events spin out of control, Paul must choose between following his dream and standing up against violence and his brother. Back to...
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Republika Srbija - Ministarstvo kulture Republika Srbija - Autonomna pokrajina Vojvodina - Pokrajinski sekretarijat za kulturu, javno informisanje i odnose s verskim zajednicama Grad Subotica

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Otvoreni univerzitet Subotica

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Co-funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union

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