GOLO Trailer

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

Mark Ther’s films frequently combine history with fiction, taking as their subject the traumatic, transgressive, and suppressed issues of gender and sexuality, as well as exploring the ways in which the sense of national identity in Czechoslovakia was impacted by the deportation of Sudeten Germans at the end of WWII. His films are characterised by an enigmatic atmosphere of the untold, complemented by a tongue-in-cheek humour, and pop and camp aesthetics. In his new film, 1930s Nida becomes the potential meeting place of three young men: Golo Mann – the son of Thomas Mann visiting his family in Nida from Munich, a man from the Sudetenland in the interwar Czechoslovakia, and a local man from Nida. Many decades later, the man from the Sudetenland, now elderly and displaced in Germany, recounts their encounters and the pushing of the boundaries between the metropolitan sexuality of Golo Mann and the provincial curiosity of the two young men from the margins of the German-speaking world. In fact, Golo Mann spent the summer of 1933 in France at the seaside mansion of William Seabrook, the American travel.