ECHO

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ECHO

By Mareike WEGENER

PETROLIO FILM GMBH - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2022

A policewoman traumatised by a bomb attack in Afghanistan has barely begun investigating the identity of a body found on the moor in provincial Friedland, when a live bomb from WWII has to be detonated in the village.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama, Female director
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Mareike WEGENER
- Writer(s)
- Mareike WEGENER
- Cast
- Valery TSCHEPLANOWA, Ursula WERNER, Andreas DÖHLER, Felix RÖMER, Oskar KEYMER, Marina GALIC, Ilse STRAMBOWSKI, Mareile BLENDL, Bernd RADEMACHER
- Producer(s)
- Hannes LANG (Petrolio Film GmbH), Mareike WEGENER (Petrolio Film GmbH)
- Synopsis
- Detective Harder (Valery Tscheplanowa) takes on her first case after surviving a bomb attack during a police mission to Afghanistan. The remains of a girl are discovered in a moor near the small German town of Friedland. But Harder's investigation falters from the outset - not least due to the discovery of a live bomb dating to the Second World War, which throws the Friedlanders and Harder herself into turmoil. This encounter with Friedland's brutal history forces her and the small town community to confront echoes of the past. ECHO unites formal clarity with dark humor, creating what could be called an anti-war comedy. The film is a probe into the collateral damage of wars of the distant and not so distant past, focusing on collective and individual forms of grief, loss, trauma and guilt.