''Rabbit à la Berlin'' (Polish: ''Królik po berlińsku'', Deutsch: ''Mauerhase'') is a 2009
documentary film, directed by
Bartosz Konopka. The script was written by Konopka and Mateusz Romaszkan, and the movie was a joint German-Polish production with the producers Heino Deckert and Anna Wydra. It was nominated for an
Oscar
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in
2010 for
Best Documentary, Short Subject. It has also won awards at the
Kraków Film Festival
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and the
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
The film tells the story of the
Berlin Wall but from point of view of a group of wild
rabbits that inhabited the zone between the two walls separating
West Berlin
West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...
from
East Germany
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during the
Cold War.
See also
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Involuntary park
Involuntary park is a neologism coined by science fiction author and environmentalist Bruce Sterling to describe previously inhabited areas that for environmental, economic, or political reasons have, in Sterling's words, "lost their value for te ...
References
External links
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''Rabbit à la Berlin'' reviewat culture.pl
2009 films
Polish short documentary films
German short documentary films
2009 short documentary films
Cold War films
Berlin Wall in popular culture
Films about the Berlin Wall
Documentary films about Berlin
Documentary films about urban animals
Films about rabbits and hares
2000s German films
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