The Noise of Letea
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Noise of Letea |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | Romanian |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 29 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Matthias Leupold |
| production | Leupold Film Production Berlin |
| music | Manja Ebert |
| camera | Eric Berg |
The Noise of Letea is a documentary by the Berlin filmmaker Matthias Leupold about a village whose residents mostly live outside the official economic cycle. The film was shot in Letea , Romania in 2016 . Its leitmotif is the sound : a donkey screams, the wind whistles, a fishing rod dips into the river, people work and sing, and the vehicles they have welded together chug. The film was shown in December 2016 at the Short to the Point Festival.
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The film traces the sounds that spring from the homesteads in the village of Letea in the Danube Delta. The actors in the film are the villagers, most of whom are self-sufficient . They speak an old Russian that is “nowhere more cultivated” because they are descendants of Ukrainians who fled the Russian Empire hundreds of years ago . There is no official local government in the village (no compulsory education , no police , no mayor , no public order office , etc.). Horses live free, the cattle return to the farms alone. The film portrays Letea on the one hand as a place “on the edge of Europe” and “forgotten by Europe”, and on the other hand as a “lost paradise ”.
Web links
- The Noise of Letea in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official project website