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”Schröder’s
wonderful world” is, in the truest sense, a ”borderline”
film. Borders play a major role in it: political borders, cultural
borders and the ones in our heads. The film defies genre, switching
between and fusing satire and reality. In the story grand ideals are
trimmed to human dimensions. In order to ground our fiction in reality,
we set off on a voyage of discovery. We travelled to the spot where
the New Europe is right now coming into being: to the border of what
was Communist Eastern Europe, the triangle where Germany, Poland and
the Czech Republic meet. |
The nearer we approached
the film location, the more tangible was the feeling of separation
at the apparently open borders. The vision of the script blended with
reality in the most intensive manner: discoveries like the Czech golf
club in the back of beyond, the wolf pack that immigrated ”illegally”
across the river Oder, roads that led nowhere, flowed into the script.
And suddenly, in turn, the location mirrored our fantasy: the real-life
project ”Berzdorfer See” corresponds almost exactly to
the ”Magic Lagoon” of the film, right down to the golf
course and the American investor. |
