The Russian woman telling her family story in TRUDI is Vlada, who now lives at the Insterburg Castle and has turned it into a Cultural Centre and museum. She answers to the artists' question of what is home to her.
The full-body suits and mask are made of natural rubber latex and are exact copies of the artists' bodies.
In the epilogue is whispered the Agnus Dei liturgy. Ending with dona nobis pacem, "peace" is therewith the very last word of the film.
The scene of the drowning man was shot at the Vistula Lagoon. There, refugees crossed the frozen lagoon during the evacuation of East Prussia in winter 1945. Thousands of them were killed or broke through the ice on their way to the west, under attack by Soviet fighter aircraft.
The final scene of KARL shows the artist melting bullets in his hand over the official military discharge paper of Karl. The paper lists his possessions at the moment of dis-missal: one shirt, one pair of underpants, one pair of socks or foot cloth, one handkerchief, one pair of lace-up shoes; loaned: marching suit consisting of field cap, field blouse with collar binding, long cloth trousers, belt buckle.