Demminer Gesänge

In his first film after a 25-year creative hiatus, Hans Jürgen Syberberg focuses on the town of Demmin, where he grew up. The history of the town, where a mass suicide took place at the end of the Second World War, killing hundreds of people, plays an important role. In his film, Syberberg documents his attempts, initiated decades ago, to re-establish Demmin's central...