Rudolf Domke : 2015
The Body of this Death
An ethnic German colony in Paraguay is in ruins. Although this colony has existed for less than 10 years, its dream of a social utopia belongs to the past. Nikolai Neufeld, founder of the colony, is imprisoned for economic fraud, he has 60 million euros of debt and 1,700 creditors. About 15 years ago he bought a lot of land in the remote area of Paraguay and started aggressively to promote settlement there. His audience was a minority in Germany, known as Russian-Germans, most of whom have German roots and have moved since the late 1980s from the former Soviet Union to Germany and lived there already for 10 to 20 years. His great promise was a municipal, carefree life in the rural idyll away from all disappointments and constraints of modern civilisation. Most of the houses in the colony are abandoned now. The film is about the people who stayed there and try to survive, as self-sufficient farmers, as ranchers and missionaries. Rudolf Domke's documentary premiered at Filmfest München 2015.
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