{{short description|2022 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = In a Land That No Longer Exists | image = In_a_Land_That_No_Longer_Exists_poster.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Aelrun Goette | producer = Tanja Ziegler | writer = Aelrun Goette | starring = {{ill|Marlene Burow|de}}<br>Sabin Tambrea<br>David Schütter<br>Claudia Michelsen<br>Jördis Triebel | music = Boris Boyadzhiev | cinematography = Benedict Neuenfels | editing = Julia Karg | distributor = | released = {{Film date|2022|10|21|df=yes}} | runtime = 101 minutes | country = Germany | language = German }}
'''''In a Land That No Longer Exists''''' ({{langx|de|'''In einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt'''}}) is a 2022 German historical drama film, written and directed by {{ill|Aelrun Goette|de}} in her feature debut.<ref name="w534">{{cite web | last=Buss | first=Esther | title=In einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt | website=Filmdienst | url=https://www.filmdienst.de/film/details/619557/in-einem-land-das-es-nicht-mehr-gibt | language=de | access-date=2024-08-16}}</ref><ref name="x585">{{cite web | last=Barraclough | first=Leo | title=‘In a Land That No Longer Exists,’ About Fashion Scene in Communist East Berlin, Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE) | website=Variety | date=2022-10-10 | url=https://variety.com/2022/film/global/in-a-land-that-no-longer-exists-aelrun-goette-1235397688/ | access-date=2024-08-16}}</ref>
The film is about a young woman who is thrust into the fashion scene of communist East Germany after a photograph of her ends up by chance on the cover of ''Sibylle'' magazine. It is partially based on the life story of Goette, who was also a model in East Germany.<ref name="b848">{{cite web | last=Wollner | first=Anna | title="In einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt": Coming-of-Age in der DDR | website=NDR.de | date=2022-10-24 | url=https://www.ndr.de/kultur/film/tipps/In-einem-Land-das-es-nicht-mehr-gibt-Coming-of-Age-in-der-DDR,ineinemlandfilm100.html | language=de | access-date=2024-08-16}}</ref>
==Plot== In 1989, 18-year-old Suzi is caught by the Volkspolizei with the book ''1984'' and a "Swords to Ploughshares" patch. She is barred from her high school graduation exams and is forced to work in an electrical cable factory. One day while riding a tram, Suzi is randomly photographed by a young photographer, Coyote, and ends up on the cover of the ''Sibylle'' fashion magazine. Suzi is invited to the editorial office, and takes a modelling job with the magazine to escape her life as a factory worker. She delves both into the world of "official" East German fashion, and also the fashion underground with her mentor, the gay, free-spirited Rudi. Suzi experiences greater freedom and falls in love with Coyote – but Coyote wants to escape to the West. Suzi must choose between leaving her career as a model and betraying her friends.
==Cast== * {{ill|Marlene Burow|de}} as Suzi * Sabin Tambrea as Rudi * David Schütter as Coyote * Claudia Michelsen as Dr. Elsa Wilbrodt * Jördis Triebel as Gisela
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|11864074|In a Land That No Longer Exists}}
Category:2022 films Category:2022 drama films Category:2022 German-language films Category:German drama films Category:Films set in East Germany {{2020s-Germany-film-stub}}