Banquet for Achilles

Original title: Bankett für Achilles
Director: Roland Gräf

GDR, 1975, 88 min, color
In German; English subtitles

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Karl Achilles has worked at the Bitterfeld chemical combine for 30 years. Having helped build the plant since the end of WWII, he will now retire at the age of 65. Achilles intends to spend more time with his family and to cultivate his garden. But it is a difficult farewell for him knowing that he is no longer up to the new technical challenges and that his younger colleagues are outperforming him.

Banquet for Achilles was filmed on location in Bitterfeld and Wolfen. Showing smoking industrial chimneys and the destroyed landscpae as central motifs, it became the first East German feature film to respond critically to environmental issues, which were officially taboo topics.

The film is also available for a Digital Site License for educational partners. Please find more information here.

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