Films by Nina Irina Roerig

2023, 90 min
by Nina Irina Roerig

A wounded civilization. People who suddenly became displaced. Despair, resistance and courage. A friendship with Russian friends that breaks. Where war is not visible, it is raging in the heads. Only silently, to be heard from afar: A chorus of Russians trapped with their thoughts, who dare to raise their voices against the war. The film THE UNKNOWN LAND - DAS ANDERE LAND is a requiem for the dead of Ukraine, who died because of Russia's attack since 24.2.2022. And a bow to those people on the r

Germany 2018, 95 min
by Nina Irina Roerig

Virtual Reality – that means in the Russian town Kaliningrad something else than only the world of games and digital illusions: People live here in at least two different levels of reality all the time: The old town Königsberg which is mostly invisible is existing as a second reality in their minds. Many cultural important people lived in Königsberg - such as Immanuel Kant and it seems, for them he ist still alive! Moreover, facing the modern ruin of a Sowjet Palace on the former place of the K

Germany 2003, 105 min
by Nina Irina Roerig

A bus ride from Berlin to Moscow takes 36 hours. During this journey there is plenty of time for the thoughts and hopes of the passengers. Some are emigrants visiting home, others return home and they are uprooted by the social upheavals. This fact makes them watchful observers of the present in the East as well as in the West. They will probably never meet again, but on this busride they are a community: Natasha, the Berlin-based actress, Yuri, who has a child in Berlin that he is not allowed t