
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."
Die Schmerzen der Lausitz was directed by Peter Rocha.
Die Schmerzen der Lausitz runs for 58min, and was released in 1990.
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