Auschwitz (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Auschwitz |
| Original title | Auschwitz |
| Country of production | Germany , Canada , Croatia |
| original language | German , English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 68 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Uwe Boll |
| script | Uwe Boll |
| production | Uwe Boll Dan Clarke |
| music | Jessica de Rooij |
| camera | Mathias Neumann |
| cut | Charles Ladmiral |
| occupation | |
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Auschwitz is a German - Canadian historical film from 2011 by Uwe Boll about the Holocaust .
action
Uwe Boll complained about the lack of moral courage in the present and the lack of interest in war crimes. To prove this, he interviews a group of secondary school students , including migrants and Germans, about the Second World War and the Holocaust . The answers given by the boys and girls are frightening, as they show a blatant half-knowledge and disinterest. They cannot assign terms such as concentration camps , SS , Jews , Hitler any more than times, whether it happened in the 16th century , 19th century , in the 1950s or 1960s . The first part of the documentary ends with a student's statement that his grandmother doesn't like to talk about these things.
Some people are in the carriage of a moving train, waiting anxiously to see where they will be taken. They are newcomers who are received by SS men . They are lined up for documentation. Meanwhile, other inmates are being forced to undress and go to a large shower room . They wait there too and are shortly afterwards murdered with poison gas . In the meantime, the group that has arrived is selected in a sober tone and the rest of the group is brought through the camp to a small barrack. Because a baby doesn't stop screaming on the way, a soldier kills it with a shot in the back of the head.
The group doesn't get excited, everything is quiet and calm. A little boy says he doesn't want to take a shower. While they are in the shower room, other Jewish prisoners are sent to the locker room to be cleared. Then things are searched for valuables while the German soldiers talk about coffee, vacation plans and defective kilns. Several people screeching and gunshots can be heard in the background, to which the soldiers paid no attention. Meanwhile, the second group of people in the shower rooms is also suffocated with hydrogen cyanide. When everyone is dead, another group of Jewish prisoners is sent into the rooms to take the dead bodies to the crematoria .
At the end some interviews with students appear again in documentary form. This time some of the students are more interested and informed. They also have more extensive background knowledge, which enables them to see what is happening in a larger context. Boll then directs the interviews to historically similar topics, such as the genocide of the Armenians , the dead in the Gulags under Josef Stalin, and the situation in the Palestinian Authority . In conclusion, Boll says that it is not God who is responsible for all actions, but you yourself, and it is up to you to avoid crimes .
production
- The historical footage for the final part of the documentation was provided by Yad Vashem .
- The film was shot almost parallel to Bloodrayne: The Third Reich in Zagreb , Croatia .
publication
When a teaser about the film appeared on the Internet at the beginning of September 2010 , the project was reported in the press. Boll was criticized.
The premiere was on February 13, 2011 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin , parallel to the 2011 Berlinale . At the same time it became known that Boll had filed a criminal complaint against the director of the Berlinale, Dieter Kosslick , because fees for the registration of films would be withheld even if they - like Auschwitz - were not subsequently shown at the festival. In total, Boll had unsuccessfully submitted twenty films and had to pay a viewing fee of 125 euros for each. Boll also justifies his step with the "exploitation of independent filmmakers " and sees his step as advocating equal opportunities.
criticism
The film met with mostly negative to disastrous reviews in Germany. The film was also received extremely poorly by the audience: On IMDb , users rated the film with an average of 3.2 out of 10 possible points, and on Moviepilot only 2.3 out of 10.
“One can argue for a long time whether it is even possible or useful to depict fictionally in a film what 'really was in Auschwitz'. One thing is certain, however: Auschwitz was not the way Boll portrays it . If one assumes bad intentions of Boll, one could also see a mockery of the victims in his film. "
“Everything Uwe Boll said about his intentions with the concentration camp drama made perfect sense to me. But with his film he once again taught me better. What then flickered across the screen had absolutely nothing to do with what the director himself thinks he recognizes in his film. "
"Despite praiseworthy intention, Uwe Boll fails with his over-staged implementation in a disastrous way and at no time can the viewer credibly and shockingly convey life in a concentration camp."
“The film lacks diligence and effort. [...] Why does Boll underline the scenes with drama clinking, why does he show shootings in slow motion, why does he not know whether the film is set in 1941 or 1945? How could he make this film right after (and on the same set as) 'Bloodrayne 3' (content: Dr. Mengele builds zombie vampire to save Hitler)? He uses the mechanisms of his trivial cinema as routinely as transparently. "
Web links
- Auschwitz in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Auschwitz in the online film database
- Auschwitz beiRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Babylon Berlin's cinema program ( memento of March 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 3, 2011
- ↑ Cast and crew on spielfilm.de , accessed on March 2, 2011
- ↑ Alex Godfrey: Uwe Böll rants about his Auschwitz film at vice.com from September 9, 2010, accessed on March 3, 2011.
- ↑ Uwe Boll wants to shoot Schocker about Auschwitz concentration camp in tz of September 9, 2010, accessed on March 3, 2011.
- ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: Uwe Boll wants to shoot in Auschwitz. In Die Welt , September 8, 2010, accessed March 2, 2011.
- ↑ Article on the Auschwitz teaser . At filmjournalisten.de on September 7, 2010, accessed on March 2, 2011.
- ↑ Director Uwe Boll defends Auschwitz film. In Die Welt on September 16, 2010, accessed on March 2, 2011.
- ↑ Günther Lachmann: Boll announces criminal charges against Berlinale boss. in Die Welt on February 10, 2011, accessed on March 2, 2011.
- ↑ a b Michael Zöllner: Uwe Boll polarized with Auschwitz film ( memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In BZ from February 13, 2011, accessed on March 2, 2011.
- ↑ Review overview Auschwitz
- ^ IMDb: Auschwitz
- ^ Movie pilot: Auschwitz