Amerika

Summary

Amerika
Films are components of the collective memory. They are substantially involved in whom or what we remember. This is the background of Amerika for the East German miners whose potash mine was closed shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall due to economic reasons.
The director Jens Jenson puts the young miner Lanski at the center of
the story as being representative of them as he sets off on an
unfamiliar journey in an old Volga after losing his job. Amerika
arouses the desire to look at these still free landscapes only a few
years after the political changes. At the same time, the film describes
the difficulties of its hero being able to cope with this new world.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH