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Rabbit à la Berlin

Country
Poland
Project status
Produced
Awards
  • Best Producer Award at Krakow Film Festival (2009)
  • Best Mid-Length Documentary Award at Hot Docs (2009)
  • Nominee for Academy Award for Short Documentary (2010)
  • Batumi IFF 2010 (Special Prize)

 

Rabbit à la Berlin

The untold story of wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Wall.

For 28 years, the Death Zone was their safest home. Guards were protecting them from human disturbance. They were closed but happy. When their population grew up to thousands, guards started to remove them. But rabbits survived and stayed there.

Unfortunately, one day the Wall fell down. Rabbits had to abandon the comfortable system. They moved to West Berlin and have been living there in a few colonies since then. They are still learning how to live in the free world, like we, the citizens of Eastern Europe.

Team Partner

Dorota Roszkowska, producer

Producer / Production Details

Otter Films and MS Film in co-production with ma.ja.de and Telewizja Polska, in associationi with MDR, ARTE, Lichtpunkt, VPRO, RBB, YLE
Supported by Polish Film Insitute, MEDIA, Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
Distributed by Deckert Distribution, Icarus Films, NHK BS1