Main Cast: k.d. lang, Rosel Zech, Chuck Connors, Jane Lind, Oscar Kawagley
Release Year: 1993
Country: DE
Run Time: 94 minutes
MPAA Rating: NR
Plot
Writer/director Percy Adlon's offbeat tale of the friendship between two unusual women: an East German emigre who works as a librarian in Alaska, and a taciturn pipeline worker. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide
This article is about the film. For information about the berry, see salmonberry.
Salmonberries is a 1991drama film directed by Percy Adlon and written by Adlon and his son Felix. It stars k.d. lang as Kotzebue, a young woman of androgynous appearance who works as a (male) miner in Alaska, and Rosel Zech as Roswitha, an East German immigrant and librarian. The movie takes place in Kotzebue, Alaska and Berlin, Germany, shortly after reunification; the dialog is mostly English but includes some German with English subtitles.
