The Last City

The Last City

100 mins | Drama | Oct. 21, 2021

An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the Negev desert and begin a conversation about love and war, which they continue in the Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. A series of encounters with alternating actors in different roles ensues, which leads the viewer through the cities of Athens, Berlin, Hong Kong and São Paulo. Among those appearing are: an old artist who meets his younger self; a mother who lives with her two grown-up sons, a priest and a policeman; a Chinese and a Japanese woman; a curator and a cosmologist.

The Last City

100 mins | Drama | Oct. 21, 2021

The Last City
An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the Negev desert and begin a conversation about love and war, which they continue in the Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. A series of encounters with alternating actors in different roles ensues, which leads the viewer through the cities of Athens, Berlin, Hong Kong and São Paulo. Among those appearing are: an old artist who meets his younger self; a mother who lives with her two grown-up sons, a priest and a policeman; a Chinese and a Japanese woman; a curator and a cosmologist.
Producers Filmgalerie 451
Original title Die letzte Stadt
Directors Heinz Emigholz
Writers Heinz Emigholz

Cast

John Erdman

as Archaeologist / Artist

Susanne Sachße

as “Japanese” Woman / Curator

Laurean Wagner

as Policeman

Jonathan Perel

as Weapon Designer / Cosmologist

Young Sun Han

as Young Man / Priest

Dorothy Ko

as Mother / Chinese Woman