Lights from Afar
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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...
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Helga Reidemeister Director · Guntram Weber Writer Dörte Völz-Mammarella Editor
First release February 16, 1998 · Produced in Germany · Production ARTE, Sender Freies Berlin
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Ö-Filmproduktion
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ARTE
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Sender Freies Berlin
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Original title
Lichter aus dem Hintergrund
Original language
German
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German
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Germany · February 16, 1998
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