Risen from Ruins
The 1990s: Amid the chaos of the post-socialist East, East German car mechanic Andreas and Alexej, a border crosser from the former Soviet Union, team up to smuggle German cars into Russia. Among the ruins of their old homeland, they try to build a future for themselves. But the new capitalist game is brutal: West German investors buy up the GDR, while corrupt border guards and ruthless gangsters control all the smuggling. Andreas and Alexej are painfully stripped of their naivety and forced to realize that in this world, they never really had a chance.
Cast
- Andreas Diehlmann
- Johann-Christof Laubisch
- Alexej Danilenko
- Nikita Petrosian
- Eugen (Grenzbeamter #1)
- Alexander Waigel
- Nikolai (Grenzbeamter #2)
- Alexej Boris
- Geschäftsmann
- Lukas Umlauft
- Bundeswehr Prüfoffizier
- Wolfgang Preussger
- Gangster
- Julia Gens
- Bundeswehrsoldatin
- Lilli Sommerhage
Risen from Ruins
Harry Besel
- Short film
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2025
- Language
- dt., ru. OF m. engl. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 20min
2.39:1, Discrete 5.1
- Original Title
- Auferstanden aus Ruinen
Director & Crew
Harry Besel
Born in Kazakhstan, grew up in Kassel. Studied Visual Communication at
the Kassel University of Art and Design. Active as a director and
screenwriter.
Filmography
| 2019 | Kugelmenschen | Experimentalfilm | |
| 2020 | Willershausen | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2024 | Grenzer | Kurzfilm | |
| 2025 | Auferstanden aus Ruinen | Kurzfilm | 2025 |
- Writer
- Harry Besel
- Director of Photography
- Ferdinand Kowalke
- Editor
- Bela Johann Vienken
- Set Designer
- Charlotte Ella Bouchon
- Linnea Kuht
- Sound
- Friedrich Haustein
- Make-up
- Julia Gens
- Producer
- Harry Besel