Die Schmerzen der Lausitz (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."
Director: Peter Rocha
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Jurij Koch as Self |
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Gerhard Gundermann as Self |
| Directing | Peter Rocha | Director |
| Writing | Peter Rocha | Writer |
| Writing | Karl Farber | Writer |
| Camera | Karl Farber | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Ilse Gebhardt | Editor |