Movie in german language: Hiddensee

For generations, Hiddensee has served as a canvas for longing, freedom and artistic utopias. The Baltic Sea island attracts intellectuals, artists, dropouts and holidaymakers in equal measure – and has, at the same time, repeatedly served as a mirror of German history.

In her documentary, director Annekatrin Hendel traces the history of an entire century. Beginning in the 1920s, when figures such as Asta Nielsen and Gerhart Hauptmann left their mark on Hiddensee, she interweaves historical events with personal life stories and shows how political upheavals continue to have an impact right up to the present day. Through striking black-and-white imagery, a multi-layered portrait emerges of a special place where the big questions of freedom, identity and social change are magnified as if under a magnifying glass.

From the Merano train station take the city bus to the bus stop "Theaterplatz", from there it is a 5 min walk.

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