Mazel Tov

Almost unnoticed, the intricately structured human brain performs at peak performance levels that only become apparent when it no longer functions. Mischka Popp and Thomas Bergman portray people whose most important organ has been irreparably damaged by illness or accident. With great empathy and without violating the dignity of their protagonists, they show the different effects of brain damage and the struggle of those affected to regain a bit of normality.

Documentary film.

A film by Mischka Popp & Thomas Bergmann

A film by Mischka Popp & Thomas Bergmann

A film by Mischka Popp & Thomas Bergmann

A film by Mischka Popp & Thomas Bergmann

The film tells of life and survival in Europe's modern satellite towns, featuring cities that no longer exist—the meta-city of Wulfen in the Ruhr region—and those that are yet to come—the megacities south of Madrid. There is a concrete city on the outskirts of Amsterdam that has become the largest black ghetto in Europe today, and a banlieue in Paris where racism and drugs dominate life. There are houses from which life has been driven out, where people seem like foreign bodies. There is the vital struggle for survival of those who have been driven into the cities, those who have been pushed out of the cities.

A film by Mischka Popp & Thomas Bergmann

A film by Mischka Popp & Thomas Bergmann

A film by Mischka Popp & Thomas Bergmann