The Sun Island (2017)
A documentary essay film about coincidences, shattered lives and posthumous fame. A found footage family film about love and passion, friendship and heartbreak in Berlin between the wars. But a film also about self-sufficiency and recycling, about the green movement and the environment – before these notions had yet been properly invented. And it touches the utopian potential of ideas that have lain buried in the ground of an island for the past 70 years. The film’s protagonist, Martin Elsaesser, was one of the most prominent modernist architects of Weimar Germany.
- Released
- 2017-06-01
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Thomas Elsaesser
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