A green lawn like an unused carpet, encircled by a neat forest edge, in the background the steaming cooling towers of a coal power station – impressionistic camera images from Lusatia. They summarise in one pan how a used-up utilitarian landscape is trying to recultivate itself. Can ancient identity and language be re-discovered amid this strange artificiality? The director travelled through this region in search of her origins. She was born here, in Lusatia. This is her home and that of the smallest of all Slavic peoples: the Sorbs.
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Grit Lemke Director · Uwe Mann Cinematographer Sven Kulik Editor
First release October 8, 2023 · Produced in Germany · Production ITWORKS! Medien GmbH, RBB
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MDR
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ITWORKS! Medien GmbH
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Germany
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Original title
Bei uns heißt sie Hanka
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
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Germany · October 8, 2023
Limited theatrical · DOK Leipzig
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Germany
October 9, 2023 · Premiere
April 18, 2024 · Theatrical
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