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Spaziergang nach Syrakus
A poignant yearning of a ship steward from Rostock who plots an escape from East Germany to retrace poet Johann Gottfried Seume's literary journey to Sicily
“Charly Hübner as a headstrong East German dreamer”
Norddeutscher Rundfunk
“Jessen tells the story of the GDR neither in a "nostalgic" way nor as a lavishly produced cinematic experience.”
Kino-Zeit
To Syracuse and back—that is Paul Gompitz's dream. With a trip to Sicily, he hopes to follow in the footsteps of writer Johann Gottfried Seume. There is just one catch: the year is 1982, and Paul lives in East Germany. Every attempt to obtain official permission to travel abroad is denied. A visit to his cousin? Membership in the League for People's Friendship? A study tour? All rejected! What choice does he have left? Paul must plot his escape. To complicate matters further: he wants to return home afterwards. Back to Rostock, to the Baltic Sea, and to his wife Anne. Paul conceives an audacious plan...
In SPAZIERGANG NACH SYRAKUS, director Lars Jessen ("Mittagsstunde") tells a tale of insatiable yearning and great courage, of deep love and steadfast loyalty—and of the desire to see the world without relinquishing home. The film is based on motifs from Friedrich Christian Delius's novel "The Walk from Rostock to Syracuse" (Rowohlt Verlag), which itself recounts the true escape of Klaus Müller. With dry wit and deep emotion, the film reflects on German history while exploring remarkably timely tensions between personal freedom and belonging, and how far one can go without losing one's partner.
Shows are in German unless they carry their language, like EN for English.
