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Gorndorf, Texas

Gorndorf, Texas

Riccardo Dejan Jurkovic / Josefine Rauch 2025 15 min Germany

Amfiteatar Doma mladih June 6, 2026 20:00

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Gorndorf, Texas – Riccardo Dejan Jurkovic / Josefine Rauch

In the decaying town of Gorndorf, Eastern Germany, two Wild West enthusiasts chase their version of the American Dream in a landscape far removed from the prairies. Transforming their everyday lives into a frontier adventure, they draw on nostalgia for a world they’ve never known. Gorndorf, Texas explores how fantasy and escapism shape the lives of those living in the remnants of the former GDR, where the dream of the American West lingers as a symbol of freedom and possibility. In this small corner of the world, the Wild West lives on — even if only in the minds of its dreamers.

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Riccardo Dejan Jurkovic / Josefine Rauch

Riccardo Dejan Jurković
is a German-Croatian filmmaker and part of the postgraduate program at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne since 2020. His feature-length documentary debut FRANK MEYER, which he co-directed with Leonhard Hofmann in a span of more than 10 years, was successful at international festivals and won the Granit Prize at the Hof International Film Festival in 2023 as well as the the Lichter Filmfest Audience Award in Frankfurt.

Josefine Rauch
lives in Offenbach am Main. She studied in Frankfurt and Los Angeles and completed her interdisciplinary master’s degree in aesthetics in 2020. Since then, she has been dedicated to documentary photography and attended seminars at the Berlin Ostkreuz School from 2021 to 2024. Her project Temple Road has been exhibited and published both in Germany and internationally. In addition to her photographic work, she collaborates on theater and film projects and has worked as an assistant to director Visar Morina, among others.