Hot Docs 2008

In his 1917 "Farewell Letter to Swiss Workers," Lenin lauds the "proletarian revolution that is beginning in Europe." His words take on modern relevance in this look at a current East German community. Unemployed workers have been protesting the loss of their factory jobs every day for almost 20 years, while students in a village pub discuss their future, and a boy, playing the part of Lenin in a church play, reads a passage from the original letter. Questions of social utopias are re-addressed in this layered observation of village life.