Foreign Travel

A year in Berlin: Leonie wanders through the city and the texts of Anna Maria Ortese. Speaking with friends and translator Sigrid Vagt, she is also looking for the narrative threads of her own life. A film of reading shot in glowing, matter-of-fact 16mm.

Cast

Alejo Franzetti

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Leonie Rodrian

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Florian Model

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Hanna Döring

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Mia Sellmann

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Sigrid Vagt

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