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Friday, June 27 at 9:55 p.m., Arte broadcasts Return crossing. A particular film, on the fight for the hope of the young people of RDA having thirst for freedom …
True to its tradition, Arte shares a European fiction this evening. Titled Return crossingthis feature film made in 2022 by Sarah Neumann, comes from Germany. Carried by a local casting composed of Lena Urzendowsky. Willi Geitmann, Jannis Veihelmann, Jonas Friedrich Leonhardi, Bernhard Conrad or even Pauline Knof, the film is interesting in more than one title, because inspired by real facts! Indeed. we are embarked here in the footsteps true story behind film, young of those who tried to flee the RDA at swimming, by the Baltic Sea …
Return crossing : a dangerous flight for hope – True story behind film, young
Go to Eastern Germany in 1989, more precisely in Rostock. This is where the young Hanna. a high school student dreams of becoming a swimming champion in the colors of her country, saw the GDR. Even more, she trains hard as iron to be selected at the next Olympic Games. Hanna. a teenager whose best boyfriend, Andreas, rebellious, will fall into the claws of the secret police, then be trained in a training camp in socialist sauce. Getting out of there more skinned than ever, he will try everything to leave the GDR. While wanting to his country. he will, after the sudden departure of their friend Jens and his family, find an escape: cross the Baltic Sea for swimming to win the island of Fehmarn belonging true story behind film, young to Western Germany. 50 kilometers of all dangers, which Hanna will also be preparing. In the viewfinder of the authorities, the two friends will throw themselves into the water, simply connected by a thread …
Return crossing : adaptation of a novel. but not only
Telling without make -up the fight for the freedom of a corseted youth in the GDR, Return crossing relied on the stories of those who really tried to reach the island of Fehmarn by the Baltic Sea. A swim leak which will have cost the life of 174 people, on the thousand who would have launched the waves. Note that Dorit Linke’s novel, Beyond the Blue Borderpublished in 2014, served as a basis for Sarah Neumann’s film.
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