The Saarbrücken Film Festival is crucial for promoting young German talents such as Franka Potente and Til Schweiger internationally. A worthy record for a federal state that has changed its nationality eight times in the past 200 years. This borderland is influenced by France in terms of cuisine and the art of living, or “Saavoir vivre“.

Coal isn’t as important as it once was, and steel and the automobile industry now compete alongside up-and-coming information technology for a leading role. Steel has left a fascinating legacy: the Völklinger Hütte, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The best known brand name can only be the world famous porcelain company, Villeroy & Boch.
 

Source: "Tatsachen über Deutschland"

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