Europa Passage

by Andrei Schwartz

Europa Passage

Germany | 2021 | 90:00 min

Formal Categories

Biography / Portrait Human Interest Society Human Rights Migration Social Issue

Content Categories

Documentary

Synopsis

The film covers the double life of a group of Roma who have been shuttling between Hamburg and their Romanian village for years. They earn their meagre income through begging and spend nights in improvised shacks alongside train tracks or in the thickets of public parks. Four to five times a year they return home to Nămăiesti, a village about 100 km west of Bucharest, to take care of their children. Only Maria and Țirloi managed to build a bit of normality for themselves in Hamburg; they have a place to stay and their 13-year-old granddaughter is the first in the family to be able to read and write. They form the bridge between the two worlds: he has work, she still begs.

Festivals/Awards

2022
37 DOK.fest Munich – Documentary Film Prize of the Goethe-Institut Nominee
39 Kassel Documentary FF
2023
shortlisted #lola23 – Deutscher Filmpreis Dokumentarfilm
17 Ethnocineca IDFF Vienna
Deutscher Kamerapreis [German Cinematographer Award] – Susanne Schüle

Cast and Crew

Director Andrei Schwartz
Producer Stefan Schubert
Director of Photography Susanne Schüle
Production assistent Anja Padge
Editor Heidrun Schweitzer, Robert Strauß
Sound Giacomo Goldbecker, Marin Cazacu, Helge Ole Haack, Stefan Bück
Sound Design Simon Bastian

Original Languages

Romanian

German

Links / Reference

PRODUCTION
WÜSTE Film GmbH
Schulterblatt 58
20357 Hamburg, Germany
wueste@wuestefilm.de
www.wuestefilm.de

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