Living in a Perfect World

• Aganetha
• Cornelio
• Pedro
• Jacobo

The perfect world of the Mennonites ( Original title: Living in a Perfect World ) is a documentary about four Russian Mennonites in Mexico and Bolivia, coming from two different conservative colonies. A part of them remains rooted in the past, while the other part of the stimuli and impressions of the outside world can no longer resist.

The film was in 2005 by the Italian film company L' Immagine (now Terra ) made ​​on behalf of National Geographic Channel International. It was broadcast worldwide in 2006 Plautdietsch original, each with an adapted subtitles.

In 2007, The perfect world of the Mennonites the award for " Best Documentary " of the BigScreen festival in China.

Action

The documentary tells the story of Aganetha, Cornelio, Pedro and Jacobo from the Mennonite colonies El Sabinal and El Capulin in the Mexican desert of Chihuahua. The rejection of the technological advancement in these colonies will cause to withdraw the most conservative among the Mennonites in the isolated from the outside world Bolivian jungle. While in El Sabinal any form of modern technology is relegated to El Capulin opens some innovations such as electricity and car. The arrival of electricity is beginning to change their centuries-old and Perfect World.

Historical Background

Because of religious persecution around 500 years ago, the ancestors of the people of the Mennonite colonies in Mexico have fled from Central Europe to West Prussia. To search for a place where they freely exercise their faith and their traditions and could speak their language Plautdietsch, they scattered all over the world. The migration paths of these Russian Mennonites led on the former South Russia (now Ukraine ) in many parts of the Soviet Union, but also to North, Central and South America. Most of the Russian Mennonites who have not emigrated to America and had remained in the Soviet Union are now migrated as Aussiedler in Germany.