In Muede Weggefaehrten, Zoran Solomun follows several refugees from former Yugoslavia. The director, a born Croatian who has settled in Berlin, certainly does not portray Germany as the promised land.

On a cold station, a train full of refugees is about to leave. A horde of glue-sniffers and two women are however unceremoniously removed from the train. The two women are at their wits' end and seek solace with each other. Under the motto 'you don't waste a mother's milk' one woman quenches her thirst at the other's breast.

Dzimi, the leather-clad refugee, did make it. With several other refugees he climbs from a truck. With the words 'Jede Oma am Fenster ist ein Spion' he warns them to avoid going out into the street all together. And he warns them above all to behave as Germans.

The five episodes are based on Solomun's own experiences and stories he has heard from refugees. The refugee chronicle Muede Weggefaehrten is told with a gloomy passion and the mood of the film can therefore aptly be described as unheimisch. This grim mood is useful in a film where people leave house and home to build a new future in a strange land. And they don't even know that they will immediately be rejected by the promised land'. BvdG

Muede weggefaehrten - Saturday 1-2, 4.15 PM, Pathe 7, Monday 3-2, noon, Pathe 6, Wednesday 5-2, 9.30 PM, Pathe 7