Waste Land

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 63 min
Premiere: 2001. November 18.

Director: Jens Schanze

By 2045, twenty localities in Germany will be resettled because of brown coal open pit mining. The film Waste Land follows the inhabitants of three villages in the Rhenish coal-mining district during their last years in their old home and documents how an entire region prepares for its collective relocation.