Life at the Stream

  • 10 10
  • 1988
  • 29min
Life at the Stream
  • Original Title: Leben am Fliess – W Blotach

A Sorbian family’s life by the stream reveals the beauty of tradition and the silence surrounding environmental devastation in East Germany.

Life at the Stream
Awards

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival/ Cottbus Film Festival/ Panorama, Berlin International Film Festival

Life at the Stream - Tradition against destruction

As the Lusatia Trilogy’s second chapter, the documentary captures not only Reinhard’s reflections on humanity’s dependence on nature but also the fragility of cultural continuity under environmental threat.

Through intimate moments with his family and the beauty of rural traditions, the documentary becomes both a plea for ecological responsibility and a record of a vanishing way of life silenced by industrial exploitation and state censorship.

Part two of Peter Rocha’s Lusatia Trilogy: High Forest Fairy Tale (1987), Life at the Stream (1989), Pain of Lusatia (1989).

Peter Rocha
Peter Rocha Director

Production Companies

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