Frau geht über einen Friedhof

Synopsis

A documentary turns into a cinematic REVISION. Like a puzzle, the film puts together the facts around the death of two men on a field at the German-Polish border in 1992. Scheffner composes an increasingly disturbing pattern of landscape and memory, witness testimonies, documents and investigations.

On June 29th, 1992 a farmer discovers two bodies in a corn field in the North East of Germany. Police enquiries lead to the fact that the dead men are Romanian citizens. During the attempt to cross the EU border, they have been shot by hunters. The hunters claim that they had mistaken the people for wild boar. Four years later, the trial begins. It will never be proved, which of the hunters has fired the fatal bullet. The verdict: not guilty. German Press Agency dpa reports: “From Romania, no one has arrived for the rendition of judgment.”

The police files contain the names and adress of Grigore Velcu and Eudache Calderar. However, their families never even got to know, that a trial had been held.

With REVISION, a legally terminated crime case becomes the subject of a cinematic revision. Places, individuals, and memories are being connected, and form a fragile pattern from different versions and perspectives of contemporary European history.

Credits

Script Merle Kröger, Philip Schefffner
Director/Editor Philip Scheffner
Director of Photography Bernd Meiners
Sound Pascal Capitolin, Volker Zeigermann
Production Manager Marcie K. Jost
Production Assistant Celia Bouali
Assistant Director Romania Gica, Adina Curta
Location Manager Romania Silvia Gramer, CD!
Production Assistant Romania Claudiu Maniacu
Sound Design Volker Zeigermann, Simon Bastian
Sound Mix Pierre Brand
Image Mastering Matthias Behrens
Online Studio Image wave-line Berlin
Online Studio Sound Zeigermann_Audio Hamburg

Commissioning Editor ZDF/arte Doris Hepp
Producer Merle Kröger
Co-producer Marcie K. Jost, Meike Martens, Peter Zorn

Produced by pong film
In co-production with Blinker Filmproduktion, worklights media production
And with ZDF in collaboration with ARTE

Development funded by
FFA
DEFA Stiftung

Production funded by
Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
Filmstiftung NRW
Deutscher Filmförderfonds

Contact Theatrical Distribution (Germany)
Real Fiction Filmverleih
Tel: +49 (0)221 9522 111
Email info(at)realfictionfilme.de

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