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Western

Valeska Grisebach / DE, BG, AT, 2017 / 121 min.

A group of German construction workers travels to a remote patch of Bulgaria to build a hydroelectric power plant. The villagers are suspicious of the Germans, the builders bring a few prejudices of their own. Filmmaker Valeska Grisebach based herself on the traditional roles in the Western, with the workers as the cowboys and the Bulgarians playing the role of the natives

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Director

Valeska Grisebach

Production year

2017

Country

DE, BG, AT

Original title

Western

Length

121 min.

Language

German, Bulgarian, English

Format

DCP

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