Lights from Afar

Lights from Afar

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 16, 1998

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Lichter aus dem Hintergrund

Production Companies

Ö-Filmproduktion, ARTE, Sender Freies Berlin

Director

Helga Reidemeister

Description

Berlin, the German capital again, a few years after the fall of the Wall. The city in upheaval is also changing the lives of its inhabitants. A young photographer experiences these changes as a rupture, he looks into an unclear, unsettling future and increasingly feels like a stranger in his old city. He and his friends from the generation of the children of the Wall try to find a new identity without losing the old one. Young artists who fail the profitability test of the market economy. In his search, Robert Paris ends up far away, in India. Back in Berlin, he started developing photos again - the first in years...