Film
Eastern Cross
15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.
Overview
15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.
Cast
- Laura TonkeElfie
- Mirosław BakaDarius
- Suzanne von BorsodyMutter
- Stefan CammannEdmund
- Gustaw BarwickiGustav
- Henry MarcinkowskiDicker Henry
- Beatrice ManowskiKarla
- Lutz WeidlichPolizist
