Unterleuten: The Torn Village2020

Director
Matti Geschonneck

Actors

Thomas Thieme (Rudolf Gombrowski)
Hermann Beyer (Kron)
Miriam Stein (Linda Franzen)
Rosalie Thomass (Jule Fliess)
Ulrich Noethen (Dr. Gerhard Fliess)
Charly Huebner (Schaller)

In the village in Brandenburg, years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an investor plans to build a wind farm. This leads to conflicts between the villagers and the landowners.

Unterleuten is a village set in the deepest province not far from Berlin in a state once part of the former GDR. The village is an uneasy mix of those who profited from the fall of the Wall and those who lost out, all living side-by-side as friends, enemies and neighbors. Then there are the newbies from the West, whose dream to breed horses together with their fear of pollution and the sighting of rare birds lead them to abandon Berlin and head to this idyllic hamlet in the sticks. Chaos ensues when the mayor announces surprise plans for a wind farm and introduces the Bavarian consultants who plan to confiscate private property for the second time in the town’s history. As secrets are unveiled, the whole town begins to turn on itself and the outsiders. But who will win?

Adapted from the hugely popular German eponymous novel by Julia Zeh.

“’Unterleuten’ certainly provides good entertainment.” – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“Director Matti Geschonneck, an award-winning veteran of German television and film, masterfully adapted a bestselling novel by author Juli Zeh.” – Spiegel

“Multi-award-winning Geschonneck has staged the complex web of relationships in the small community in a way that is well worth seeing. And the cast of ’Unterleuten’ is a true all-star cast.” – Stern