End of the line of yearning

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Movie
Original title End of the line of yearning
Country of production Germany
original language German , Korean
Publishing year 2009
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Cho Sung-hyung
script Cho Sung-hyung
production Helge Albers ,
Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
camera Ralph Netzer ,
Axel Schneppat ,
Stefan Grandinetti
cut Cho Sung-hyung

The end of the line is a German documentary by the South Korean director Cho Sung-hyung from 2009.

action

Three women are looking for a home and after more than 30 years are returning to a South Korea that is no longer hers. In the 1970s they left everything behind, including their children, to go to Germany as guest workers . They assimilated themselves perfectly in the new country and yet always longed for the old one. They make their dream come true and take their German husbands with them to Dogil Maeul ( Korean 독일 마을 or 獨 逸 마을, Dog'il Ma'eul), the "German village" that was built especially for people like them. Young-Sook, Chun-Ja and Woo-Za have returned as well-off pensioners and have become tourist attractions. Because the village in the picturesque bay is actually more German than German, there is wholemeal bread and sausages. It is their new, old home to which Armin, Willi and Ludwig followed them at the age of 60 in the hope of a peaceful retirement. And yet there is something missing in women. Because: “In the evening, when the sun goes down, you get homesick . Regardless of whether you are 40, 50 or 60. ”It was the same for them in Germany, and it is also the same in South Korea, where they can no longer seamlessly continue their old roots. They wear traditional Korean costumes in living rooms with wall units made of German oak.

criticism

"In the precise observation of this 'culture clash' the film catches attentive and clairvoyant comical-absurd moments, but above all makes the tragedy of uprooted elderly people visible and tangible, for whom the term 'home' remains a longing-laden projection."

- Lexicon of International Films

"A different kind of Heimatfilm, whose sweet and sour everyday observations invite you to smile, but are also full of tasty, tender melancholy: You can recognize Germans abroad by their bratwurst."

- Cinema

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ End of the line for longings. In: Lexicon of International Films. Retrieved December 9, 2011 .
  2. ↑ End of the line for longings. In: Cinema. Retrieved December 9, 2011 .