Competition

Out of Competition
International Premiere

JOURNEY INTO EXILE
10 TAGE, EIN GANZES LEBEN

Country of production: Germany
Year: 2003
Language: Spanish, German
Mins: 89

Director: Tanja Hamilton
Script: Tanja Hamilton
Cinematography: Claudia Rauch
Editing: Bettina Blickwede, Melanie Werwie
Sound: Kramer O'Neill
Producer: Christian Drewing
Production company: Filmareal
Source: Tanja Hamilton
Filmareal
Ludwigstrasse 73a
70176 Stuttgart
GERMANY
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September 11, 1973. Antonio Coloma is a Communist Party city councilman in southern Chile. But with the U.S.-sponsored coup against democratically elected President Salvador Allende, Coloma's world is turned upside down. Soon, he is harassed, and then detained, barely escaping the murder that many of his comrades met. However, he is released from prison, and manages to escape to Germany.

Thirty years later, Mr. Coloma travels back to Chile. He has been back before, though each voyage is special. He confronts the deep wounds marking those who stayed behind, and addresses the anguished issue of whether he should have stayed and fought. He travels throughout the country, discovering what remains of the world and the people he knew.

This time, Mr. Coloma also tries to locate someone who was crucial in his escape: a former "comrade" who was actually a spy for the rightists. He could have stopped Mr. Coloma's escape. But he didn't. Why?

Tanja Hamilton was born in 1972 in Wiesbaden, Germany. She grew up in the USA and Germany. She studied at the Freie Universitat Berlin and the Berlin School of Journalism. Since 1997, she has studied documentary filmmaking at the Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg.

filmography as director
JOURNEY INTO EXILE (2003)
WIN OR PLACE (2001)
LOOKING FOR LIV (2000)
VORLAUFIG VOLLSTRECKBAR (1999)
STUTTGART-TOKYO (1998)

Saturday 10-Apr-2004 3:00 PM Gallery Theatre