gray is the Vistula Lagoon in the winter, dancing whitecaps on the waves when the winter storms sweep over it. In the winter of 1944-45, the terror austere landscape is at its most inhospitable site. Thousands of people fought their way across the frozen lagoon to the port city Pillau - and many sank in the icy waters. We walk back in the opposite direction, from west to east, from the Vistula to the Curonian Spit, from the Vistula to the Memel.
The focus is on the pristine nature of the coast of the former East Prussia. First stop is the former Koenigsberg. Many houses have fallen, dandelion and daisy fight for a little soil and light. While a certificate of decay and poverty in the city, the little nature, it leads to the Memel magnificent director. We support a fisherman down to the Memel into the lagoon. There herons lurk on rich prey, eagles pull her feeding circuits, hundreds of great cormorants their young. Even from the Memel mouth are the mighty mountains dunes on the Curonian Spit to see.
A photographer from Nida is still a constant companion of shifting sand hills that buried entire villages several times among themselves. His pictures show peaks and ridges, hills and hooks, weird structure that shapes the wind. The wind in the forest with his bizarrely shaped pines live boars, foxes and even moose. Last stop is the oldest bird observatory in the world. Rossitten was founded in 1901. The birds use the Spit as a land bridge on their train and find undisturbed resting places. This turned the famous wildlife filmmaker Heinz Sielmann his first film "Birds of Haff and meadows. Cutouts show from his film and other archival footage, how little the face of the landscape, all the political changes in spite of changed in the past 60 years.
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