Eastern Cross (1991)
OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany. prostitute, single parent, berlin wall, eastern germany, east berlin, crook, hoodlum
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