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GermanyCountry
90:00Running Time
10 Jan, 2022Date
Christa PfafferottProducer
HDOriginal
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The Corner

Feature - 90 min

Through archive and testimony, the past and present come together on a simple street corner

In 1945, only weeks before the end of WWII, a photo went around the world: it was of young American soldier, shot dead on a street corner in Germany. Today, the corner looks exactly the same as it did back then. For more than eighty years, Marie has lived in the same house by the corner – she feels deeply connected to its place in the past, having lost her father to the war. One day Robert appears. A young descendant of the soldier, he has traveled to the corner from Texas to understand why he feels so strangely connected to his great-uncle. Marie sees in him her late father; it seems like there is an invisible connection running through history.

Festivals and Awards

DOK Festival Leipzig | World Premiere

CountryGermany
Running Time90:00
Date10 Jan, 2022
ProducerChrista Pfafferott
OriginalHD
Ref No8590

The Producers

Christa Pfafferott - Director

With my stories I want to make unnoticed topics visible and touch people in a lasting way. To do this, it is important to me to go into psychological depths and to dive into different worlds of society.
Currently I am working on a literary novel – supported by a scholarship from the Kulturstiftung Thüringen.

My current film Die Ecke (The Corner), funded by MDM Filmförderung and Moin Filmförderung, in co-production with MDR and in collaboration with arte, follows the story of a 1945 photo from Thuringia. The film had its world premiere at the DOK Festival Leipzig 2022 and is broadcasted on arte and MDR after a theatrical tour.

My previous film Other World“, about female nurses and patients in a clinic for forensic psychiatry, was awarded the Marlies-Hesse-Prize and shown at festivals, on TV and is currently shown on Netflix. I also wrote my dissertation on the subject, "The Panoptic Gaze,“ which was published by transcript.

My films, such as Difficult Birth, about a mother who became pregnant unintentionally, or Party of the Aged, about a family caring for their grandmother, have been screened and awarded several times.

The Corner

Through archive and testimony, the past and present come together on a simple street corner

The Producers

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