East Cross ( Ostkreuz )

East Cross (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ostkreuz
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
81 min + 15 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

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

Directed By:
Michael Klier

Written By:
Karin Aström
Michael Klier

Actors:
Laura Tonke ..... Elfie
Miroslaw Baka ..... Darius
Suzanne von Borsody ..... Elfies Mutter
Stefan Cammann ..... Edmund
Gustaw Barwicki ..... Gustaw
Henry Marcinkowski ..... Dicker Henry
Beatrice Manowski ..... Karla
Martin Trettau ..... Großvater
Sophie Rois ..... Friseuse (as Sophia Rois)
Lutz Weidlich ..... Polizist #1
Michael Krause ..... Polizist #2

Synopsis:

Director Michael Klier depicts a very depressing portray of life in former East Germany. 14-year-old Elfie lives with her mother in East Berlin. While she skips classes and practically does nothing productive, her mother sleeps with a friend in exchange for money. They both want to pay the appartment they live in. Elfie meets a Polish fellow who shows her the way to steal pickpocket style on the streets. The money she gets out of this is not enough, and her mother decides to leave East Germany with her "boyfriend" she leaves her daughter behind. It cannot be a more depressing ending, although it is not a heartbreaking story.

In Ostkreuz (1991), Michael Klier tells the episodic story of 14-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man's-land between the two Germanys during the Wende, and deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.

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