Schwochow adapts Der Turm for big screen
Young German director Christian Schwochow (photo), whose second feature, Cracks in the Shell [+see also:
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Der Turm will describe the last seven years of the GDR before the fall of the wall in the bourgeois setting of a residential area in Dresden. Produced by
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