An emotional roller coaster ride that hasn't been seen in the cinema for a long time - outstanding.
Deutschlandfunk Corso
A strong film about family and identity and the question
of what if our path in life had taken a different turn somewhere.
Kunscht! SWR
Preuss and Brüning have managed to make a film that is rich in twists and turns, which is very touching and, above all, raises questions that go beyond Manuel's fate: what shapes us? What is our identity?
Knut Elstermann on Radio Eins
A film about the difficult and disturbing search for one's own roots and identity - accompanied by the great uncertainty of what that does to you. (…) A timeless masterpiece that sensitively tells a universal story.
Stuttgarter Zeitung
A film about the meeting of worlds that previously knew nothing about each other. An adventure trip, a road movie, a melodrama, a legend with an open ending.
Filmdienst.de
'Mein fremdes Land' deliberately avoids loud effects, explosiveness and the big fanal. The film convinces above all with its quiet tones, precise observation and narrative immediacy.
Statement of the jury for awarding the Documentary Film Prize
of the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg
documentary film, 94 minutes
a DOKblick production, coproduced by SWR,
funded by MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg
Germany 2021
synopsis
The fourth child of a herdswoman is born on the floor of a mud hut in a Bolivian mountain village. A few months later, little José arrives at the house of an adoptive family in Germany. José Noé Estrada becomes Manuel Phillip Sosnowski.
During his childhood, the boy doesn’t want to know anything about his origins. Pictures from his orphanage in Bolivia, he turns away. „In fact, we have never really talked about it“, Manuel remembers today. The only traces of his birth in a faraway country are now compiled in a folder with adoption papers written in bureaucratic language.
To make sense of his own story, at the age of thirty-one, the young man decides, for the first time in his life, to ask the questions he never dared to ask. Why did his mother give him away and who is this woman supposedly living in a place called Yawisla-Potosí? With the sparse information available, Manuel embarks on a journey full of uncertainties.
filmstills
© DOKblick
distribution
FESTIVALS
Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2021 | official selection | world premiere
Filmschau Baden-Württemberg 2021 | winner: best documentary
CINEMA
cinema distribution in Germany
by Arsenal Filmverleih
release date:
06/23/2022
CINEMAS SCREENING THE FILM
Dresden | Zentralkino
Augsburg | Thalia
Ingolstadt | Union
Mössingen | Lichtspiele
München | Museum-Lichtspiele
Nürnberg | Casablanca
Stuttgart | EM
Tübingen | Arsenal
Ulm | Obscura
Berlin | Moviemento
Berlin | Bundesplatz Kino
Aachen | Apollo
Freiburg | Friedrichsbau-Apollo
Heidelberg | Gloria
Heilbronn | Kinostar Arthaus
Karlsruhe | Schauburg
Bremen | Cinema Ostertor
Hannover | Kino am Raschplatz
TELEVISION
German television publishing rights held by SWR
TV release: to be announced
POSTER
© DOKblick
poster design: Studio Bewegtbildgrafik
credits
protagonists
written & directed by
producer
cinematography
editor
music
music mix
boom operators
sound postproduction
sound mix
motion- & titeldesign
color grading
editorial staff (SWR)
Manuel Sosnowski
Diego Gonzalez
Lourdes Lora Flores
Balbina Estrada
among others
Johannes Preuss & Marius Brüning
Malte Schumacher
Johannes Preuss
Tobias Wilhelmer
Chiara Strickland
Marc Fragstein
Malte Schumacher
Marius Brüning
Valentin Burkhardt
Marco Schnebel
Claudio Demel
Marvin H. Keil
Beppo & Robin Albrecht
(Studio Bewegtbildgrafik)
Robin Jünkersfeld
Joachim A. Lang
Katharina Maria Kontny
production pictures
© DOKblick
press
FILMREVIEWS
Michael Meyns in Programmkino.de
Ralf Schenk in Filmdienst.de
Stefanie Borowsky in Indiekino.de
Oliver Armknecht in film-rezensionen.de
PRINT & WEB ARTICLES
Schwäbisches Tageblatt; 06/18/2022
Filmpremiere in Mössingen: Die Suche nach der Identität
by Sophie Holzäpfel
BR.de; 05/31/2021
Manuel Sosnowski Dokumentarfilm
by Andreas Krieger
SWR.de; 12/08/2021
Baden-Württembergischer Filmpreis für „Mein fremdes Land“
Página Siete, La Paz; 12/06/2021
Llega a cartelera alemana Mi país extranjero, inspirada en Bolivia
by Luis Flores Vasquez
Stuttgarter Zeitung; 12/03/2021
Doku „Mein fremdes Land“: Zwischen Bolivien und Ludwigsburg
Haus des Dokumentarfilms; 12/02/2021
„Mein fremdes Land“ bei der Filmschau Baden-Württemberg
by Stefanie Roloff
LIFT. Das Stuttgart Magazin; December, 12th 2021
Filmschau Baden-Württemberg: Die Filmschau kehrt auf die Leinwand zurück
by Janis Kuhnert
TV AND WEBVIDEO
Kulturmagazin Kunscht! Kultur im Südwesten – SWR
language: German
author: Jana Gührer
broadcasted on: 12/01/2021
Puzzle | Kulturmagazin des BR
language: German
author: Andreas Krieger
broadcasted on: 05/31/2022
laserhotline.de
language: German
author: Wolfram Hannemann
published on: 06/21/2022
RADIO
Deutschlandfunk Kultur: Vollbild
Vom Glück einer Adoption – "Mein Fremdes Land"
by Patrick Wellinski
broadcasted on: 06/18/2022
Radio Eins: Zwölf Uhr Mittag
Knut Elstermann im Interview mit den Machern von MEIN FREMDES LAND
by Knut Elstermann
broadcasted on: 06/25/2022
MDR Kultur: Filme der Woche
Knut Elstermann empfiehlt MEIN FREMDES LAND
by Knut Elstermann
broadcasted on: 06/23/2022
Radio Eins: Kino King Knut Elstermann
by Knut Elstermann
broadcasted on: 06/23/2022
FILMPREIS BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG
jury statement Filmpreis 2021
award ceremony of the 27th Filmschau Baden-Württemberg
language: German
12/05/2021
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