A 70s German eco-horror where trash literally buries the bourgeoisie. Campy? Yes. Prophetic? Terrifyingly so.
On his wanderings, Tom meets young Lizzi and accompanies her to the vacation resort "Im Sonnengrund". The residents there are threatened by a huge garbage dump that will bury them all.
Production
That garbage mountain is REAL. Practical effects from actual ecological anxiety.
Direction
Erler turns a TV movie into genuine slow-motion nightmare fuel.
Director
Rainer Erler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for West German television in 1975, this predates mainstream climate cinema by decades. Erler was basically screaming into the void about consumer waste while everyone else was disco dancing.
The resort's name 'Im Sonnengrund' ('In the Sunny Valley') is bitter irony—the sun here brings rot and methane, not warmth. German pessimism at its most architectural.
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