DE 2019 | Director, Script: Therese Koppe | Camera: Annegret Sachse | Editor: Evelyn Rack | Music: Irma Heinig | Sound: Billie Mind | Production: Therese Koppe, Marie-Luise Wagner, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Colour | DCP | 74 min | german OV | Edition Salzgeber

Erika Stürmer-Alex and Christine Müller-Stosch are both 81 and have been a couple for 40 years. On an isolated farm in the East German Uckermark, they have created a space for an artistic life that is as free as possible. They still live here, in the peaceful countryside. A Quiet Resistance accompanies them as they lead their lives together under an authoritarian regime. They pass review of their survival strategies before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and they look together to the future. They read each other's Stasi files and diaries aloud at the kitchen table, and they read letters they wrote each other the few times they were separated. In so doing, Erika and Tine reflect on their experiences on the Lietzen art farm; the celebrations, the theatre rehearsals, and the long search to even find this place. They also recall the "Wessis" who came driving up to the farm after reunification and tried to claim it.

Director Therese Koppe uses archival material of performances, workshops and exhibits, as well as quiet images of the farm community's daily life, to tell the story of two strong personalities who ask themselves what role art can play in a restrictive society and in politically sensitive times. How can it provide meaning for the individual as well as the community? And how can we hold on to our ideals without having to make compromises? (Carolin Ernst, Kasseler Dokfest)