“(...) The (...) Jury ignored important names such as Volker Koepp with his ‘Czernowitz,’ Andreas Veiel’s ‘Die Spielwütigen,’ and Andrzej Klamt and Ulrich Rydzewski, whose two hour travel film, ‘Carpatia,’ was presented to an international audience for the first time in Nyon. The beautiful countryside footage of the Carpathian mountains encourages dreaming. The portraits of lonesome mountain farmers and others that seek no contact to progress, bring inspiration to the soul (...) there are carefully recorded travel destinations throughout the middle of Europe.

Hans-Jörg Rother
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Kino, 29.04.2004