Lothar Kittstein

A small farm in Bavaria, 1815. An inexplicable cold spell destroys the harvest. Nobody realises that the volcano Tambora in Indonesia erupted shortly before. A gigantic ash cloud has spread around the globe and is disrupting the global climate. There is no summer across Europe. For two years, almost nothing grows in the fields.
150 years later, Bavaria is the promised land of agriculture and livestock farming. Supported by subsidies and artificial fertilisers, and under the protective umbrella of American nuclear missiles, it is now possible to make an excellent living as a clever large-scale farmer on the same stretch of land, while the young generation of post-war children goes into opposition. The ‘limits to growth’ seem infinitely far away to both sides.
In 2025, a young chemist from Munich takes over the formerly prosperous, now run-down operation. She wants to synthesise food in the laboratory using the very latest technologies. Capitalism and sustainability are finally to be reconciled.
Director Christoph Frick and author Lothar Kittstein have already dealt intensively with climate change and possible scenarios for sustainable coexistence, both artistically and politically. They look at the centuries-old history of agriculture and at those who plant the earth so that the supermarket shelves are filled. A farm in Bavaria is the setting for three contemporary images of man's dependence on nature. Land tells of our attempts to conquer it for survival. (Announcement by the Munich Kammerspiele)