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Tir na nog – German Emigrants in Ireland

Kinemathek – Art House Theater

TirNaNog_I_Oefilm_Thomas Plenert © Deutsche Kinemathek

TirNaNog_I_Oefilm_Thomas Plenert © Deutsche Kinemathek

© Deutsche Kinemathek

In the early 1990s, former DEFA director Jörg Foth traveled to the northwest of Ireland with cinematographer Thomas Plenert and a 16-mm camera. As early as the 1980s, a group of left-wing dropouts from Germany had been drawn to this barren region. Their motivations are varied: political disillusionment, the dream of a self-determined life, or government subsidy programs for settling on abandoned farms.

Jörg Foth accompanies the families through their challenging daily lives and observes their struggle to survive amidst the rugged natural landscape. In doing so, he explores old ideals and new realities. The result is a sensitive portrait of diverse ways of life, whose questions and contradictions remain as relevant today as ever.

This film, which is shown far too rarely, can be experienced here in its original 16mm format.

›Tir na nog – German Emigrants in Ireland‹, Germany 1994, Director: Jörg Foth, 16mm, German original version, 90 min

Special guest: Jörg Foth (director)
Moderator: Diana Kluge (Deutsche Kinemathek)Translated with DeepL

Price: €7.00

Reduced price: €5.00

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