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LAMALAND
 
A film trilogy produced, written and directed by Pablo Sigg

2018-2024 / 35 mm / 1.90:1 / Colour & BW / German / Mexico - Switzerland

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A film trilogy about the final days and the aftermath of the last survivors of the Aryan colony founded by Friedrich Nietzsche's sister in the Paraguayan jungle.
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This dark saga, made over the course of a decade in its real-life scenario and starring its living characters, is composed in three films:
 
I. Satan
II. Dance of Death
III. Paradise

« Last year, Pablo Sigg completed his Lamaland trilogy, a project spanning over a dozen years, which began in 2011 with the documentary Der Wille zur Macht. Its protagonists—brothers Friedrich and Max Josef Schweikhart—were among the last descendants of German settlers led by Elisabeth Nietzsche and her husband Bernhard Förster, who founded the Aryan colony of Nueva Germania in the heart of the Paraguayan jungle in the late 19th century. The utopia, it seems, continues. Living in near-total isolation according to ancestral rules, the Schweikharts appear in Sigg’s imagination as “the last people.” Their participation in the film—a medium entirely unfamiliar to them—gives the impression of cinema documenting humanity for the first time. Devoid of overt drama, these Cain-and-Abel-like figures—or perhaps Vladimir and Estragon—submit their faces and bodies to Sigg’s vision, their days shaped by nature and full of minor rituals. Silent, tenacious, and proudly alone, they dwell among ruins and objects whose purposes have long been forgotten. » (Agnieszka Szeffel) https://www.nowehoryzonty.pl/artykul.do?lang=en&id=3260

World Premiere
Nowe Horyzonty, New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland, 2025