FRG 1983 | Directors: Regine Heuser, Edith Marcello (former Schmidt), David Wittenberg | Camera: Aribert Weis, Pavel Schnabel, Fritz Poppenberg | Editor: Regine Heuser | Music: Victor Jara, Inti Illimani | Production: Edith Marcello (former Schmidt), David Wittenberg, EZEF | Colour | 16mm | 100 min | german OV | DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum

In 1977, Daimler-Benz wanted to start building a test track in the Baden-Württemberg countryside near Boxberg. Right from the start, the project met with fierce resistance from local farmers. The directing trio Heuser/ Marcello/ Wittenberg followed the conflict from 1981-83. Rather than a simple report, they provide a picture puzzle of struggles: international and local, historical, present and future. The music of Chilean communist and singer-songwriter Viktor Jara, who was murdered in 1973, runs through the film. Images from Brazil and the exploitation of the rural population there due to neo-colonial expansion are juxtaposed with rallies in Stuttgart and West German political talk shows. (Patrick Kokoszynski, 2023)