FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Oskar Roehler - Die Unberührbare

After the fall of the wall I suddenly lived in a new world. Today I think I'm living in a dystopian science fiction movie Yesterday six (in fact six) cops approached two hippies in front of our store. They sat on two stones in front of the flowerbed. The stones were too close together.

Oskar Roehler shot No Place To Go in black and white. Not because black-and-white films are hip, but because his heroine Hanna Flanders (Hannelore Elsner) sees the world that way. These are her last days. Hanna grew up in the GDR. She loved the GDR. Uncritically she loved what they called "real existing socialism". I think I even understand her a little. Nanna is "Old 68er". A generation to which my father belongs. Many thought at that time that the new GDR should become the better Germany. Not the old Germany with a Nazi as Federal President. Of course also the Old-68s saw that the GDR did not represent an ideal. But they believed in the construction. They understood the "real existing socialism" not as real, but as utopia. Then Hanns world collapses. Hanna loses the connection. In the GDR she was a poet, in the new Germany her old publisher shows no more interest in Hanna. Her visit to her upper middle-class parents in Munich also went wrong. She does not want to see her son (Lars Rudolph). Hanna is on the verge of financial ruin. "How can you just go on living?" Right from the start, No Place To Go is about death. The whole world has become ugly. Can play "She brings the rain". Roehler has modeled Hanna after his own mother. She, Gisela Elsner, is considered a forerunner of the student movement and published a satirical novel about Germany in 1964. But she disappeared into oblivion before the fall of communism. The fall of the Berlin Wall meant the end for her.