Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Realizador Rita Bakacs
Países Germany
Duração 10 min
Sinopse
Once a residence of the Mendelssohns, this derelict estate near Berlin is now a workplace for "one-euro-jobbers", a controversial welfare program. Their personal stories interweave with their accounts of the palace’s turbulent history: GDR children’s home, Soviet military base, and the Mendelssohns, whose name does not seem to mean anything to anyone here anymore. What remains is the palace with its crumbling facade, and a sense of absence, created by the wheels of German history.
Once a residence of the Mendelssohns, this derelict estate near Berlin is now a workplace for "one-euro-jobbers", a controversial welfare program. Their personal stories interweave with their accounts of the palace’s turbulent history: GDR children’s home, Soviet military base, and the Mendelssohns, whose name does not seem to mean anything to anyone here anymore. What remains is the palace with its crumbling facade, and a sense of absence, created by the wheels of German history.