Eastern Cross

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.

• Michael KlierDirector
• Michael KlierScreenplay
• Karin AströmScreenplay
• Fred FrithOriginal Music Composer

• Laura TonkeElfie
• Mirosław BakaDarius
• Suzanne von BorsodyMutter
• Stefan CammannEdmund
• Gustaw BarwickiGustav
• Henry MarcinkowskiDicker Henry
• Beatrice ManowskiKarla
• Lutz WeidlichPolizist
• Michael KrausePolizist
• Sophie RoisFriseuse
• Martin TrettauGroßvater