the cast

Professor Jürgen Trabant - Professor for European Plurilingualism at Jacobs University
Bremen. Former rector of Studienkolleg zu Berlin. Taught at the Universities of Tübingen, Bari, Rome, Hamburg, Berlin, Stanford, Leipzig, Davis, Paris and Limoges.

John Hulsman, Ph.D. - The Alfred von Oppenheim Scholar in Residence at the German Council on Foreign Relations. Having given over 1250 interviews, Mr. Hulsman is a frequent commentator on foreign policy issues. He makes regular appearances with major media outlets such as ABC, CBS, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, PBS, Comedy Central and the BBC. He has written over 150 published articles on international relations for publications such as The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Policy Review, Newsweek, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Die Welt and Le Monde. Hulsman travelled extensively though Europe and the former Soviet Union and lived in Scotland for 7 years. He holds an MA in Modern history with International Relations and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews.

the crew

Stefanie Trambow - director, camera, cut
Tilman Reinhardt - music
David Krebs - driver

setting

Tempelhof Airport, Berlin - Opened in 1923, it belongs to the world's oldest still-operating commercial airports. It became famous for Operation Vittles, airlift during the time of Berlin Blockade. On 20 June 1948 Soviet authorities, claiming technical difficulties, halted all traffic by land and by water into or out of the western-controlled section of Berlin. The only remaining access routes into the city were three 25-mile-wide air corridors across the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany. Faced with the choice of abandoning the city or attempting to supply its inhabitants with the necessities of life by air, the Western Powers chose the latter course, and for the next eleven months sustained the city's two-and-a-half million residents in one of the greatest feats in aviation history.  

*cover photo by Lukas Bischofberger, www.youthphotos.eu