Underplayed Gems

Rabbit à la Berlin (2009)

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Original title
Królik po berlińsku
Directed by
Bartosz Konopka
Genre
documentary film
Country
Germany, Poland
Runtime
50 min
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This short documentary describes the Berlin Wall from the perspective of wild rabbits that lived in the strip between the two walls. Their unusual habitat became a peaceful haven during the Cold War, until political changes disrupted their existence.

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What happens

Rabbit à la Berlin (Polish: Królik po berlińsku, Deutsch: Mauerhase) is a 2009 documentary film, directed by Bartosz Konopka. The script was written by Konopka and Mateusz Romaszkan, and the movie was a joint German-Polish production with the producers Heino Deckert and Anna Wydra. It was nominated for an Oscar in 2010 for Best Documentary, Short Subject. It has also won awards at the Kraków Film Festival and the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. The film tells the story of the Berlin Wall but from point of view of a group of wild rabbits that inhabited the zone between the two walls separating West Berlin from East Germany during the Cold War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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