Die Schmerzen der Lausitz (1991)

Release Date: 1991-01-01
Runtime: 0h 58min
Production Country: East Germany
Director: Peter Rocha

A film essay documenting the devastation of the Lausitz region. The Sorb writer Jurij Koch describes the destruction wreaked as a component in an act of ethnocide:"The end of a language; even if the step is appantantly an economic necessity in terms of furhtering the region, it signifies impoverishment, the excavation of an ethnic habitat - a restriction of human richness."