In the last of his four Fontane films, Bernhard Sallmann turns his attention to the Havelland region in western Berlin. In fact, as in the case of the three previous films, he explores the area alone by bicycle during filming. The handy digital camera technology makes it possible to film as a solitaire and with light luggage.
The texts from Fontane's Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (Walks through the Mark of Brandenburg), which Sallmann mounts to his shots, this time especially often veer into the anecdotal and tell, among other things, of a baron full of the joys of life who, after his death, "in his double capacity as a drunkard and court jester, was buried in a wine barrel." A longer passage is devoted to the island of Werder and its inhabitants, who, in Fontane's portrayal, were stubborn in a worldly-wise way and who, in the Middle Ages, are even said to have succeeded in keeping the plague raging around them at bay. Does the island still show its turbulent history? Indeed, in Sallmann's film, a self-sufficient, defiant aura seems to surround it. "The art of his [Sallmann's] photography is shown above all in the fact that he does not simply find perfect, almost painting-like compositions, but that he repeatedly discovers motifs that refer to several times simultaneously" (Bert Rebhandl)
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