Endstation Tanke

A personal insight into the repercussions of the fall of the wall. Ruthless businessmen from the West have abused the innocent ignorance of East Germany's people, and, as a result taken everything from them: their money, their homes, their lives. In this film we witness what appears to be just a microcosm of the sort of troubles, frustration, anger, and despair at these repercussions.

The Middle of Nowhere uses this bleak situation as a backdrop. We are drawn deep into the characters of the main protagonists as a criminal enters a small community and, through mistaken identity, transforms and heightens their emotions to riotous proportions.

With the central 'OK Corral' being a barely used petrol station, and the barren landscape yearning for tumbleweed the characters parallel those stereotypically found in Cowboy Westerns. But here, we are treated to a director's vision that takes a familiar format and transports it to the most unlikely location, whilst managing to stylistically nod respectively to some of the world's great directors - Wim Wenders & Akira Kurosowa

I anticipate wonderful journeys for the viewer in any future ventures by this first-time director - Natalie Steinbart