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A haunting chronicle of Lusatia’s devastation in 1989–1990, where artists, activists, and workers fight to save their land from erasure.
AWARDS: Prize of the City. Ökomedia
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Fokus: Film for Future/ DOKLeipzig/ Panorama, Berlin International Film Festival/ Special Program, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
The Pain of Lusatia - When the earth is torn apart, voices rise from the rubble
Part three of Peter Rocha’s acclaimed Lusatia Trilogy documents the irreversible devastation of the Lusatia region from the fall of 1989 to the spring of 1990.
Through stark aerial footage, the scale of destruction becomes undeniable, echoing Sorbian writer Jurij Koch’s description of an “act of ethnocide.”
The film follows artists, activists, and everyday workers—among them landscape architect Otto Rindt and Gerhard Gundermann, the excavator operator turned East German music icon—as they fight to preserve their land, culture, and memory in the face of advancing industrial ruin. Their testimonies and creative resistance reveal both a farewell to a vanishing world and a defiant act of remembrance.
Part three of Peter Rocha’s Lusatia Trilogy: High Forest Fairy Tale (1987), Life at the Stream (1989), Pain of Lusatia (1989).
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