Drama, 2007, 85 min. Director: Robert Thalheim
7. Oktober 2008: 18.30 Uhr
No English subtitles! Albanian and French subtitles.
Zivildienst in einer Begegnungsstätte in Polen? Das stand auf Svens Wunschliste nicht ganz oben – war aber die einzig freie Stelle, die er noch bekommen konnte. In Oswiecim, dem Ort, der unter seinem deutschen Namen Auschwitz traurige Berühmtheit erlangte, soll sich Sven um den eigenwilligen KZ-Überlebenden Krzeminski kümmern und wird nicht nur mit neuen Aufgaben, fremder Sprache und der historischen Bedeutung des Ortes konfrontiert, sondern auch mit der eingespielten Routine der Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Als Sven auf die polnische Dolmetscherin Ania trifft und sich in sie verliebt, lernt er ein Leben jenseits der Begegnungsstätte kennen. Aber wie sieht ein normales Leben an einem Ort aus, an dem nichts normal ist? Wo Fettnäpfchen, Vorurteile und Tabus auf der einen Seite und Gedenkstätten-Tourismus auf der anderen Seite lauern? Als Ania sich für ein Stipendium in Brüssel bewirbt, beschließt Sven alles hinzuschmeißen. Mit gepackten Koffern steht er am Bahnhof. Doch am Ende kommen Touristen, wie jeden Tag, und Sven muss sich entscheiden...
Community service at a memorial in Poland? This was not what Sven had wished for but it was the only post he managed to get. In Oswiecim, the place that gained notoriety under its German name Auschwitz, Sven’s task is to care of the headstrong camp survivor Krzeminski. He’s not only confronted with a new job, a foreign language and the historical meaning of the place but also with the well-rehearsed routine of conciliatory gestures of German commemorative practices. Falling in love with the young Polish interpreter Ania, Sven experiences life beyond the memorial. But what is a normal life like in a place where nothing is normal? Where there lurk faux pas, prejudices and taboos on the one hand, and memorial tourism on the other? When Ania decides to accept a scholarship in Brussels, Sven is on the verge of quitting and leaving. Waiting fully packed for his train, a group of tourists arrive. And Sven has to take a decision…
Dhe në fund vijnë turistët
Dolaze turisti
Državni službenik u komemorativnom mestu u Poljskoj? To uopšte nije bilo na listi Svenovih želja, ali je bilo jedino mesto koje je mogao da nađe. U Osviecimu, mestu koje je u svetu postalo poznato pod nemačkim imenom – Aušvic, Svenov zadatak je da se stara o Gdinu. Krzeminskom koji je preživeo koncentracioni logor. Tu se suočava ne samo sa novim zadacima, novim jezikom i istorijskim značenjem mesta, nego i sa dnevnom rutinom prevazilaženja prošlosti. Kada Sven upoznaje i zaljubljuje se u poljskog prevodioca Anju, on doživljava život iznad komemorativnog mesta. Ali, kako izgleda život u mestu u kojem ništa nije normalno? Gde nepoverljivost, predrasude i tabui leže na jednoj i komemorativni turizam na drugoj strani? Kada Anja odlučuje da prihvati stipendiju u Briselu, Sven odlučuje da ostavi sve. Sa koferom u ruci on odlazi na železničku stanicu. Tada pristižu turisti, i kao svaki dan, Sven treba da odluči …
Robert Thalheim was born in Berlin in 1974. He then lived in the USA where he graduated from high school. After completing school in Berlin he took his first steps into the film world at the West Berlin public radio and television service “Sender freies Berlin” where he co-directed the documentary “Um vier Uhr plötzlich ging die Welt unter". This was followed by his community service at the International Youth Meeting Centre in Auschwitz, Poland. His subsequent work as screenwriter and director on “And Along come Tourists” was based upon the experiences he gathered there. Thalheim was assistant director at the Berliner Ensemble and took contemporary German literature, history and politics at Berlin Free University before studying directing at the Konrad Wolf Film and Television Academy (HFF) in Potsdam-Babelsberg. His final diploma film “Netto” won him numerous awards early in his career, including the Max-Ophüls-Förderpreis (2005), the jury prize Perspektive Deutsches Kino at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival and the Deutscher Filmkunstpreis (2005).
