The Manor - Summer 1927

The Manor - Summer 1927

Direction: Volker Heise, Jutta Doberstein

DocumentarySeriesTV

Germany, 2005
16 x 26 Min.

The last Journey Three Wishes, Three Women, One Year

By order of ARD Werbung.

TV premiere: Oct 11, 2005, 11.10.2005

Content

A young woman time-travels to the Roaring Twenties.
As the lady of a plush manor, Germany 1927
she entertains her guests who visit for a summer
in the country. Formal etiquette is abandoned, the
living easy. New technologies challenge and excite -
electricity, radio, the automobile. In the cellar bellow,
fellow time-travellers work tirelessly as housemaids
and servants. Despite their status, they are of equal
ability and education as “those above”. A recipe for
revolution ...