Film Restored – Screening – ‘Mein Tod ist nicht dein Tod’

‘Mein Tod ist nicht dein Tod’, GER 2006, D: Lars Barthel, 85 min

Introduction: Franz Frank (Deutsche Kinemathek)
In English

A man receives a mysterious assignment from his deceased wife: she wants him to scatter her ashes to the wind, which he buried in India fifteen years ago. His journey is also a voyage into their past love. Embedded in this fictional framework, Chetna’s true story is told – of her arrival in the GDR, where she was considered to be ‘exotic’ and the despair she felt as a foreigner. During a joint film project with Barthel, Chetna died in India. The journey to her Indian grave is accompanied by Barthel’s odyssey into thoughts and memories. These raise age-old questions about how things unfold over time as well as guilt and atonement.

In 2020, the film was digitised and edited in 2K resolution by Arri Media on behalf of the Deutsche Kinemathek. The starting materials were the original Super 16mm negative, in combination with the 35mm negative and digital audio tape mix. Digitisation was made possible by the Film Heritage Subsidy Programme (FFE).

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