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Królik po berlinsku (2009) is a German,Polish movie. Bartosz Konopka has directed this movie. are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2009. Królik po berlinsku (2009) is considered one of the best Documentary,History,News movie in India and around the world.
The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls. For 28 years Death Zone was their safest home. Full of grass, no predators, guards protecting them from human disturbance. They were closed but happy. When their population grew up to thousands, guards started to remove them. But rabbits survived and stayed there. Unfortunately one day the wall fell down. Rabbits had to abandon comfortable system. They moved to West Berlin and have been living there in a few colonies since then. They are still learning how to live in the free world, same as we - the citizens of Eastern Europe.
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Królik po berlinsku (2009) Reviews
A bold cinematic proposal and felicitous surprise
Few times has somebody the chance of watching a movie that combines a symbol of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the lovable rabbits. In order to avoid misunderstandings, I clarify that I reffer to the animals and not to Playboy Bunnies, as some more naughty may have thought. With those paradoxical facts in mind I walked in Goethe Institute of the city of Athens, where the movie was to be played and heard the illuminating introductory speeches, that of Kostas Spyropoulos-president of StoryDoc(www.StoryDoc.gr) among them. Nevertheless, the paradox persisted:how could such a "serious" issue, as the Berlin Wall, be combined with rabbits? The invitation to the movie had the picture of a rabbit, excluding thus the possibility that the documentary was hinting to an earlier form of what we now would call trafficking-the transfer of poor eastern girls to satiate the depraved tastes of rich westerners in the form of sexy bunnies. The narrative of the rabbit adventure, encircled by the Berlin Wall, was accompanied by interviews of experts, soldiers and simple witnesses, following the precepts of docudrama. Early, the spectators were to discover that the whole story was an allegory and a metaphor concerning the residents of Eastern Berlin. The movie though was very discreet, never betraying the obvious parallel but portraying with seriousness and detachment the habits, practices, sexual behaviour and social prospects of rabbits, as witnessed by experts, soldiers and simple folk. In a masterly manner the sense of detachment is sustained and one is lead to wonder whether the film intended really to describe rabbits and not the social condition of Eastern Berliners. It uses this admirable devise, that has possibly to be revealed, so as not to discourage prospective viewers. The ups and downs of life, that is the change from tolerance to persecution from the side of the governing party is reliably portrayed, while footage from the state visits of Heads of State(some still alive as Fidel Castro) of the Soviet-allied world is displayed, symbolically as attempts to learn and supervise the progress and development of the rabbit colony in Eastern Berlin. The life-cycle of a whole world is rendered alive by the film, depicting the development of a self-sufficient political, moral and biological cosmos, from it's formation to it's end and total transformation. The film juxtaposes stability and monotony with the challenges and dangers of the new, leaving the spectator to reach his own conclusions of what was really best for the rabbits(e.g. Eastern Germans) without claiming that it has a ready-made answer. The director becomes the Herodotus of the rabbit world having in his disposal modern technical means. The idea of using animals as moral exempla, from which to draw conclusions for human social values and organization is not new. It known to modern Greeks through the myths of Aesop, to Europeans in general from the stories of Lafontain and to the Anglo-American world, in a more modern form, though George Orwell's political parable(adapted for the cinema) "Animal Farm". It has been also used in comics, through the depiction of the victims of the Holocaust as mice, presumably to make explicit the point of view of their exterminators. All of the above in no way diminish the flair and appeal of this brilliantly conceived and executed film.
Brilliant Berlin Rabbits!
It doesn't get any better, any more creative, and any more fascinating that this! "Rabbit ala Berlin" is the story of the generations of rabbits that lived behind the Berlin Wall and what happened to them through a sixty year history. The photography is amazing, the narration is excellent, and the layering of content is totally intriguing. Who would have thought of telling the story of the post war Potsdamer Platz through they eyes of our furry friends in the east? Don't miss it!
Interesting metaphoric take on the GDR
"Królik po berlinsku" or "Mauerhase" or "Rabbit à la Berlin" is a German/Polish co-production from 7 years ago that brought writer and director Bartosz Konopka an Oscar nomination and his career-defining film so far. I have a bit of a problem though with the category placement. First of all, at 50 minutes, this is not a short film anymore, by IMDb standards or by mine. And you could also argue if it is really a documentary as almost all of the people depicted in here were actors as well and their responses were scripted in order to fit the general approach of the film. This general approach is talk about the GDR and its citizens, but refer to them as rabbits instead of humans. Rabbits are people too right? Anyway, I must say this was an interesting idea. Lets be honest, the topic of the German split into two countries has been elaborated on sufficiently in film by now, so it's always difficult to being something new to the table and you could really only do so by the approach you give the subject and not really by the contents itself. That's why I think Konopka brought us a really creative metaphorical take on the whole topic here, maybe one that is not working entirely for 40 minutes, so I'd have preferred this one to be maybe only 30 minutes long. But I am fine with this one being Oscar-nominated, even if it lost to "Music by Prudence". I recommend checking it out. Just don't go in it expecting an animal documentary because with rabbits being shot, this is the last thing you'll get. Thumbs up for "Mauerhase" and I hope Konopka still has enough creativity in him to top his achievement here at some point, or at least repeat it. After all, he's still a prolific filmmaker.