Eastern Cross

Movie · 1h 23m

Starring Laura Tonke, Mirosław Baka, Suzanne von Borsody, Stefan Cammann

15-year-old Elfie 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.