Salmonberries

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Salmonberries ★½ 1991 (R)

East German Roswitha (Zech) is devastated when her lover is killed trying to scale the Berlin Wall. She manages to escape and finds herself stuck in a remote Eskimo community in Alaska where she becomes involved with Kotzebue (lang in her film debut), who poses as a man to work on the Alaskan pipeline. The title has something to do with preserved berries—don't bother, it makes about as much sense as the entire movie. English and German with English subtitles. 94m/C VHS, DVD . GE CA Rosel Zech, k.d. lang, Chuck Connors, Jane Lind, Oscar Kawagley, Wolfgang Steinberg, Wayne Waterman, Christel Merian; D: Percy Adlon; W: Percy Adlon, Felix Adlon; C: Newton Thomas (Tom) Sigel.