Follow Me (1989)
- Directed by
- Maria Knilli
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A woman navigates her personal relationships and identity during the political tensions of divided Germany. The story follows her journey as she confronts the barriers between East and West.
reflectiveunderstatedearnestslow-pacedintrospectivemelancholicthoughtfulgrounded
What happens
Follow Me is a 1989 East-West drama film directed by the Austrian filmmaker Maria Knilli. It was her second feature film, following her feature film debut with Lieber Karl released in 1984. Follow Me was entered as the official German contribution into the competition of the 16th Moscow International Film Festival in 1989 and had its world premiere there. It was released theatrically in German cinemas on 2 November 1989, one week before the fall of the Berlin Wall. 1990, following the Velvet Revolution, the film was shown at the 27th International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary. The script was written by Maria Knilli together with the DEFA-filmmaker Ulrich Weiß using the pseudonym Vera Has. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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