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www.autobahn-film.de/
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www.kamerakultur.de/
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Age ratings
universal
World Sales
youtu.be/cmWD93JuyzI
www.autobahn-film.de/
www.facebook.com/Film.Autobahn...
www.kamerakultur.de/
AUTOBAHN
Synopsis
A huge construction project will change Germany´s most notorious bottleneck forever - a long-term observation over eight years of people living in Spa town Bad Oeynhausen. A film about Germany, small town society and a huge motorway."The spa town of Bad Oeynhausen: Every day, thousands of trucks roll through the city centre and over the B 61 federal road which connects the A2 and A30 motorways, respectively Warsaw and Amsterdam. When the threat of losing its status as a health resort looms on the horizon, which means losing the inviting title of 'Bad', something has to change: A bypass is to be built.
Over a period of eight years, the film documents the gridlocked traffic at this bottleneck, the efforts of the mayor, police, fire brigade and construction companies, the delays in the construction of the northern bypass and above all the reactions of the affected residents. The latter look forward to some quiet and relief – or will soon have the motorway right in front of their door. The long-term documentation focuses less on the large-scale infrastructural measures than on their consequences for the people living by the roadside. Other stories are 'picked up' there with a fine instinct for unusual characters and leaving lots of space for their personalities and quirks. These include the local tradition of counting trucks on the federal road or the construction site as well as taking a walk or jogging on the long unfinished section of the road. (Frederik Lang, Catalogue DOK Leipzig 2019)
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Producer
- Director of photography
- Editor (Cut)
- Sound Design
- Original Score
Festivals/awards
201962 DOK Leipzig
2020
35 DOK.fest Munich
Awards
DOK Leipzig
29.11.2019 - Age ratings
universal
