Rough Trade in Rust
A film about the second-hand car trade on the Baltic, where fishing trawlers carry German bangers to a new life in Lithuania
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"They tell ... the private stories of the people behind the business, shuttling between Eastern and Western Europe to turn old iron into gold. The murder of two dealers during the making of the film is by no means sensationalized, but rather adds a disturbing twist, for the viewer and Neustadt alike."
The newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung
Written and directed by Thomas Seekamp and Jens Fintelmann
Camera by Steffen Steigner. Sound by Paul Kraneis
Edited by Sophie Kill. Editor NDR: Margarete Runte-Plewnia
30 minutes. First broadcast June 5, 1998 on 'ARD-exclusiv',
NDR 1998