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Sierra Leone

Screening on Film
Directed by Uwe Schrader.
With Christian Redl, Ann Gisel Glass, Rita Russek.
West Germany, 1987, 16mm, color, 92 min.

A subtle portrait of disillusionment, Sierra Leone tells the story of a man who, after years working abroad, returns to Germany with pockets full of money. Although he thinks he can pick up where he left off, a different reality soon emerges. His wife, to whom he had sent money, has moved in with somebody else and rejects him coldly. He has an affair with a former girlfriend and gets roaring drunk with his former workmates. In the end, the film’s protagonist is once more alone.

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