Eastern Cross (1991)

Cast

Laura Tonke, Mirosław Baka, Suzanne von Borsody, Stefan Cammann, Gustaw Barwicki

Overview

OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.