With her two small children in hand, a woman heads to a construction yard. She then climbs up a high crane to the very end of the boom, clutching her kids. She threatens to jump if, by that evening, she’s not provided with a flat that she can afford.
We enter with typewriters and leave with sirens. Activist and veteran filmmaker Helke Sander has never shied from controversy, and she won the short film Golden Bear at Berlin for this eerily detached account of an incident from the fade out of the Cold War. A rarity from the Deutsche Kinemathek!
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