The Bavarian Forest (2/11)

The Bavarian Forest (2/11)

In the 1980s, a bark beetle infestation left the Bavarian Forest National Park looking like a post-apocalyptic ground zero, the "largest forest cemetery" in Central Europe. In the intervening years, however, a unique natural wonder has taken place: the forest has restored itself to its original form - without human intervention. The film tells the story of how a "catastrophe" struck a former industrial forest and how from that the "primeval forest of tomorrow" is now growing; how becoming, growing and decaying are perfectly intertwined here and why the bark beetle was not a gravedigger, but a midwife for a new biosphere.