Rabbit á la Berlin

A story about thousands of wild rabbits which lived in the Death Zone of the Berlin Wall. As if the green belt between the two walls was ‘designed’ for those animals -  full of untouched grass, the predators stayed behind the wall and the guards made sure no one ‘disturbed’ the rabbits. They had been living there for 28 years, enclosed but safe. Unfortunately, the Wall fell down one day and the rabbits had to look for another place to live. The film is an allegory which brings closer the history of Eastern Europe as seen from the ‘rabbit’ perspective.

This is also the first film showing the story of the Wall and the reunification of Germany seen from such an unusual perspective – from the rabbits’ point of view. It refers to the nature film convention, the Polish version is narrated by Krystyna Czubówna [famous Polish nature films narrator]. What is interesting – German commissioning editors were very enthusiastic about the idea of shooting a film about the difficult time in German history by two Polish men, from quite a surprising perspective.