Desireé & Polylepis
Year
1995
Country
Berlin
(Germany)
Technique
35 mm.
Animation
Length
9′
Levi / Stöhr Production
Script and realization: Angelika Levi and Joseph Stöhr; Music: Josje Pater
financed by Film Fund Niedersachsen, “High Quality” award by the German Film Classification Board in Wiesbaden.
Animation film. The genetically modified potato Desireé escapes with other potatoes from the experimental plantation in Niedersachsen. She is helped by three cyborgs who live in the final repository for atomic waste in Gorleben. The Centaur flies Desireé to the Andes, where she originally came from. There Desireé transforms into her biggest desire: a polylepis rose tree.