Film
Die Schmerzen der Lausitz
Germany · XG- Director
- Peter Rocha
- Year
- 1990
A film essay documenting the devastation of the Lausitz region. The Sorb writer Jurij Koch describes the destruction wreaked as a component in an act of ethnocide: "The end of a language; even if the step is appantantly an economic necessity in terms of furhtering the region, it signifies impoverishment, the excavation of an ethnic habitat - a restriction of human richness."
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Directed by
Peter Rocha
Written by
Peter Rocha, Karl Farber