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    Apple Trees

    Helma Sanders-Brahms 1992 Germany color 112min German DCP
    Sometimes love is question of the time in which one lives. Thousands of apple trees as far as the eye can see when the German Democratic Republic still existed. Lena and Heinz meet while working and a great passionate love begins. But Sienke is there, lord of trees and of the people who live from them. He desires Lena, and she gives in. Not until the fall of the Berlin Wall, after which thousands of apple trees are sacrificed for new construction,does love return to Heinz and Lena - a love with sorrow and rage. It will be a different love, but under apple trees, like before.

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    Helma Sanders-Brahms

    Helma Sanders-Brahms was born in Emden in 1940.She studied Acting,German and English and worked as a teacher.She was an intern on productions by Corbucci and Pasolini and made her first film,Angelika Urban,Salesgirl,Engaged,in 1970.Her films have received numerous national and international awards such as the German Film Award for Heinrich and Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand the Grand Prix of Montreal for Laputa in 1986.She was made a "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres"by French culture minister Jack Lang in 1991.

    Helma Sanders-Brahms

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