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We are at a big hospital in the outskirts of a small city in the middle of the Thuringian Forest, central Germany. That is where Johannes is doing his alternative military service. The head-doctor, general director of the institution and a family friend, was the one who recruited him. There, Johannes meets Ana. The night they first share a kiss, a sex offender flees from the hospital. His escape and the police’s frenzied attempts to locate him underscore Johannes and Ana’s story – a hopeless love story that transcends boundaries. First part of the Dreileben Trilogy, Berlin 2001.
Christian Petzold
Born in Hilden, Germany, in 1960. He studied literature before enrolling in the Berlin Academy for Film and Television. His first feature was 2000’s The State I Am In. With Jerichow (2008), he took part in the Venice Festival. He has been selected three times for the Berlin Film Festival, with Gespenter (2005); Yella (2007), for which Nina Hoss won the best actress award; and Barbara (2012), a Silver Bear winner for best director.
