Distant Lights

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.

• individual
• prostitute
• jealousy
• robbery
• escape
• unsociability
• home
• taxi driver
• despair
• ex-girlfriend
• bankrupt
• translation
• frankfurt/oder
• camera
• border
• mattress shop
• people smuggling
• cigarette smuggling
• slubice
• youth welfare office
• communion
• communion dress
• illegal employment
• eastern block
• border patrol
• interpreter
• abusive father
• architect
• poland