ALTMARK (WT)

ALTMARK (working title) shows how war is rehearsed in Europe‘s largest military model town in the middle of Germany. The film paints a picture of the Bundeswehr caught between dealing with the past, ultra-modern war simulation and an uncertain future.

Marie Wilke, who studied at the ZeLIG School for Television and Film in Bolzano and Berlin’s University of the Arts, had made three feature documentaries – MIT LEIB UND SEELE (1999), STAATSDIENER (2010) and AGGREGAT (2017) – before ALTMARK. This latest film continues the long-standing collaboration with her ‘regular’ DoP Alexander Gheorghiu who was behind the camera for her when she directed the six-part true crime series HÖLLENTAL in 2021.