Southeast Passage

Southeast Passage (2002) blends Documentary elements. Top cast includes Hanns Zischler, Viktor Pavel, and Oskar Pastior. The plot follows a central conflict that grows in scope as the film progresses.

Actor: Hanns Zischler

Places and worlds beyond the interest of the media are at the mercy of the law of forgetting. The spotlight fades and that which urgently needs public attention lies in the dark: poverty, hopelessness, and the population's fear in the face of terror from the state or from gangs, of Mafia-like business practices and paramilitary despotism. This is not a journey to a far-off land, outside of our cultural circle; it takes place along the old transport and trade routes through the decaying empires of southeast Europe. The images collected at the side of the road distill something essential from a number of small but significant observations: the coincidence of the lack of coincidence in living conditions.