Sep 19 2025 to Sep 19 2025 3:30 p.m.

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Where

Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

716, Chinmaya Mission Hospital Road, First Stage, Indiranagar, Bengaluru 560038

Event Description

German Kino at Suchitra Film Society brings to you Free Country (2019), directed by Christian Alvart.

Former East Germany, 1992. Patrick Stein and Markus Bach, two very different police officers, are commissioned to investigate the disappearance of two female teenagers in a remote area of the country. They end up sinking deeper and deeper into the mire of the formerly divided Germany. A thriller with a sense of history.

Free Country
by Christian Alvart
2019 | colour | 130 min. | German with English subtitles

Christian Alvart (b. 1974) is a self-taught film director. He made his feature film debut in 1999 with Curiosity & the Cat, which was nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize. After his second feature film Antibodies (2005), he moved to Hollywood and directed horror-thriller Fall 39 (2007), followed by the sci-fi thriller Pandorum (2008). Back in Germany, Alvart worked as a director for the Tatort series and directed thrillers and comedies. He also directed the Netflix series Dogs of Berlin.

Entry free!