• Director(s):

    VARGAS (RICHARD)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE, COUP D'OEIL

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2004

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, DVD, INTERNET

The aim of this series is to reflect on an event a year after it hits the headlines...

The aim of this series is to reflect on an event a year after it hits the headlines.
Part of the inherent cruelty of news is that the old news has to make way for the new. Yet the people involved have to go on living with the events that propelled them briefly into the limelight - and the lasting consequences of those events. Some pay a high price; others never recover. Some make a tragically abrupt exit, leaving others to mourn unnoticed. Some people seem to crop up in the news all the time, either because they are part of the media circus, or because they have decided they want to be in the news and have worked hard to get there.
For every event which makes headline news, journalists spend time building up personal contacts, amassing knowledge and facts, and thinking how best to express people's hopes and fears.
"A Year Later" has been created so that these people and their stories should not be forgotten, to find out what happens to them once the news has moved on, and so that the work of those who reported on the events should not be wasted.