WILDE WASSER: AN DER ILLER - WILD WATER: ON THE BANKS OF THE ILLER

by Gerhard Baur
43’, Germany, 2010
Italian premiere
Water is a curse and a blessing. It gives life and destroys it. In mountain areas, above all, these extremes meet. So it was during the devastating flooding of the Iller, in the mountainous region of Allgäu, in Germany. Man had used the water’s power to produce energy by deviating the river’s path and building dams. Now it remains to return the water to its natural course with projects that guard against flooding.
 

	Gerhard Baur Born on Lake Constance, in Bavaria, in 1968 he began his long, prestigious career as author and director of documentaries and films devoted above all to his Alpine feats. In recent years he has favoured subjects about the mountains in the Allgäu region, where he lives. He has produced and directed some seventy documentaries about the mountains.