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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 51 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 51 m

Summary RABBIT À LA BERLIN is the 2010 Academy Award-nominated story of thousands of wild rabbits which lived in the Death Zone of the Berlin Wall. This is the first film showing the story of the Wall and the reunification of Germany seen from such an unusual perspective – from the rabbits' point of view. As if the green belt between the two wal...

Directed By: Bartosz Konopka

Written By: Mateusz Romaszkan, Piotr Rosolowski, Anna Wydra, Bartosz Konopka

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 51 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 51 m

Rabbit à la Berlin

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Summary RABBIT À LA BERLIN is the 2010 Academy Award-nominated story of thousands of wild rabbits which lived in the Death Zone of the Berlin Wall. This is the first film showing the story of the Wall and the reunification of Germany seen from such an unusual perspective – from the rabbits' point of view. As if the green belt between the two wal...

Directed By: Bartosz Konopka

Written By: Mateusz Romaszkan, Piotr Rosolowski, Anna Wydra, Bartosz Konopka

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75
Dec 10, 2010
He turns to the furry creatures as a metaphor for life in post-Communist countries. Just as the rabbits were discombobulated by their newfound freedom, so, too, were people, who found it difficult to adapt to life without Big Brother.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 10, 2010
Nominated last year for a short-doc Oscar, the featurette is a lovely modern mini-myth, sarcastic and Beatrix Potter–y in turn.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 10, 2010
Cunningly fashioning found footage into a rabbit's-eye view of events, Polish helmer Bartek Konopka creates a chillingly apt political allegory in Rabbit a la Berlin.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 10, 2010
Teasing and shrewd, Rabbit à la Berlin is a floppy-eared fable about the uneasy trade-offs between liberty and security.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 10, 2010
The doc's straining for a larger, Varda-esque metaphor about the sad humans on the sidelines is ill-advised.
By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW

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Production Company MS Films, Ma.Ja.De Filmproduktion, Telewizja Polska (TVP), Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), Lichtpunt, Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO), Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
Release Date Dec 10, 2010
Duration 51 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Krakow Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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