Documentary · Germany · 2001 · 1h 3m

Waste Land

Otzenrather Sprung

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By 2045, twenty localities in Germany will be resettled because of brown coal open pit mining. The film Waste Land follows the inhabitants of three villages in the Rhenish coal-mining district during their last years in their old home and documents how an entire region prepares for its collective relocation.

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