Salmonberries ( Percy Adlon's Salmonberries )

Salmonberries (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Percy Adlon's Salmonberries
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Montreal World Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Percy Adlon

Written By:
Felix O. Adlon
Percy Adlon

Actors:
Oscar Kawagley ..... Butch
Rosel Zech ..... Roswitha
k.d. lang ..... Kotzebue
Eugene Omiak ..... Gvy
Wayne Waterman ..... Ronnie
Jane Lind ..... Nonyak
Chuck Connors ..... Bingo Chuck
Alvira H. Downey ..... Izzy
Wolfgang Steinberg ..... Albert
Christel Merian ..... Albert's wife
George Barril ..... Bingo attendant
Gary Albers ..... Tight rope walker

Synopsis:

Singer K.D.Lang makes her acting debut in this moving parable of impossible love and the struggle for identity. Stunningly shot in remote north-western Alaska, the film sees Kothebue (Lang), an androgynous, inarticulate Alaskan pipeline worker, search out her family origins in a small town library. There she meets Roswitha (Rose! Zech), the librarian, a quiet East German who retreated to Alaska after her young husband was shot escaping across the Berlin Wall. As the women help each other come to terms with their pasts, Roswitha rejects a sexual relationship, despite the palpable desire that develops between them. Written and directed by Percy Adlon, the film echoes his international hit, Bagdad Café - desolate locations, an emotional tryst between strong-willed women from diverse backgrounds - and remains a timeless tale of two lost souls searching for love.

Writer/director Percy Adlon's offbeat tale of the friendship between two unusual women: an East German emigre who works as a librarian in Alaska, and a taciturn pipeline worker.

The story of the friendship between two women, one half-Eskimo, and the other a refugee from East Berlin who travels to Alaska after her husband is shot in their escape attempt over the Berlin Wall.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 April, 2009.