
Lost Places: Abandoned Sanatorium, Forgotten Space Center in Kazakhstan & More
A camera crew walks through Europe's emptied buildings, starting at the Heilstätte Grabowsee sanatorium buried in forest outside Berlin, then through the Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch, a former GDR government hospital tangled up in Cold War politics. Stops follow at the Michelangelo Da Vinci restaurant in Villamarzana, the Paragon and Sturhann hotels, and Kurhaus Sand's Hunter's Hotel, each building's decline narrated alongside its original purpose. A second stretch of the film turns to industry and space: the factory that once built Bugatti cars, the abandoned Autodromo di Casale Monferrato racetrack where supercars were once tested, a Polish forest littered with rusting cars and fire trucks, and the decommissioned Baikonur Cosmodrome facilities in Kazakhstan. The footage is observational, walking through peeling wallpaper, rusted machinery, and overgrown runways while narration supplies the history behind each site. It is a tour of forgotten infrastructure rather than an argument, letting the decay of hospitals, hotels, and a space center speak for the passage of time on its own.