Films by Tom Lemke

Germany 2015, 84 min
by Tom Lemke

“What can you do?” A cri de coeur we are going to hear quite often in this film about the last Mohicans of Grunau. A ghost village built over a deposit of brown coal in the south of Saxony-Anhalt whose inhabitants were resettled in the 1990s. The only ones left are the locksmith, the famer and the Norbert, whose house is being picked apart by woodpeckers. They form a strange community as the film opens in 2003. They still slaughter livestock together, help each other, former neighbours drop by a