ECHO THEATRICAL RELEASE
in selected theatres across Germany
The premiere of Mareike Wegener's film ECHO took place in Cologne's Filmhaus in attendance of many cast and crew members.
The film tells the story of Detective Harder (Valery Tscheplanowa) who takes on her first case after surviving a bomb attack during a police mission in Afghanistan. The remains of a girl are discovered in a moor near the small German town of Friedland. But Harder's investigation falters from the outset - not least due to the discovery of a live bomb dating to the Second World War, which throws the Friedlanders and Harder herself into turmoil.
The film is a probe into the collateral damage of wars of the distant and not so distant past, focusing on collective and individual forms of grief, loss, trauma and guilt.
"One of the most remarkable films in this year's Perspektive." (taz)
ECHO is a PETROLIO FILM production in co-production with WDR and with the support of Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, Film und Medienstiftung NRW, Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien and Deutscher Filmförderfonds.