ROTE STERNE ÜBERM FELD

The East German rural idyll in Laura Laabs’ debut feature promptly evaporates when a well-preserved skeleton is pulled out of the moor. How did it get there and when – 10, 50 or 100 years ago? The villagers and Tine start speculating: who could it have been? The farmer’s son who deserted from the Wehrmacht? The farmer who stubbornly refused to give up his collective farm? An undercover federal agent who died in the shootout at Bad Kleinen? A “whodunnit” case unfolds in four acts with the Germany of the 20th century reappearing in the present. “What‘s it to me?” Tine asks when confronted by it all. But that’s before she then has first-hand experience of how history can take over your life…