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"A life next door" shows bizarre and adventurous living environments.
What drives people to flee, how do they set up their new lives and how big is the difference between them and us "normal citizens"?
What fascination do the different subcultures exert?
Because apparently they offer something that the "real" world cannot offer people.
Damanhur is a community of around 600 people who have settled in Italy in a valley not far from Turin.
The principles of their coexistence are grassroots democracy, ecology and an esoteric spiritual faith.
They see themselves as a state, with their own constitution and currency.
A small, fully equipped world with a school, youth center, newspaper editorial office - and an absolute ban on smoking so as not to impair the purity of the earth.
In their lives outside the community, Damanhurians usually work as lawyers or estate agents.
The Damanhur Federation - a new home for many seekers of meaning.
First broadcast: Friday, August 12, 2011, 10:00 p.m., ZDF.Kultur.
