A film about the German-speaking minority in South Tyrol in 1961. Q&A with director Michael Kofler following the screening.About this Event
South Tyrol, 1961. The northern Italian region with a German-speaking minority is shaken by a series of separatist bomb attacks. Free spirit Paul wants to escape the narrowness and lack of prospects of his little village and study painting in Munich. When his hardliner brother, Anton, becomes a fugitive terrorist,
Paul reluctantly puts his own plans on hold to support his brother’s wife, Anna, and their little son on the small farm. As ethnic tensions and police repression in the village grow, Paul gets drawn into a downward spiral of violence and toxic masculinity. Anna openly condemns the radicalization of her husband but increasingly clashes with the patriarchal structures of the time. When events spin out of control, Paul must choose between following his dream and standing up against violence and his brother.
Michael Kofler grew up in rural South Tyrol in the Italian Alps. He studied
Directing in London, where he also worked for several years at a leading Film &
TV production company. His short films and video works have been screened at
various international film festivals. His screenplay for his debut feature film, A
LAND WITHIN (OT: ZWEITLAND), won the top award of Racconti Development
Lab by IDM Film Commission. Michael is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents,
the talent development programme of the Berlinale.
Event venue
Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, United States
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