The man who died twice
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The man who died twice |
| Original title | You Only Die Twice |
| Country of production | Israel , Austria |
| original language | Hebrew , English , German , Serbo-Croatian |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yair Lev |
| script | Yair Lev, David Deri |
| production | David Deri, Markus Glaser |
| music | Jonathan Bar-Giora |
| camera | David Deri |
| cut | Yaniv Rize-Sheffy |
The Man Who Died Twice (Original Title: You Only Die Twice ) is an Israeli documentary film about a doubled Austro-Jewish identity of the 20th century from the year 2018. Directed by the professor of documentary film at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem , Yair Lev .
The film follows the research of the Israeli director, who is looking for a man who was apparently born on the same day, July 12, 1902, and in the same city ( Vienna ) as his grandfather - but 18 years later in Tyrol supposed to have died. The second man of the same name was also president of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde for Tyrol and Vorarlberg in the last years of his life , i.e. an official officer of the small Jewish community in western Austria.
The strip, cut in the style of a thriller , premiered on March 6, 2018 in Innsbruck's Leokino and received two awards at the Docaviv Film Festival in May 2018 . On March 11, 2018, the film was shown in the ORF special to commemorate the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich in 1938; on May 16, 2018, it was shown in Dox format on Bayerischer Rundfunk.
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The director's mother, Chava Lev, got the news from Austria that she could make an inheritance claim to a small house in London - only there was another problem: According to the Vienna documents, her father was not in Tel Aviv in 1969 , but died in Innsbruck in 1987. Her son Yair Lev, leading actor , screenwriter and director of the film project, sets off to Vienna to find out the truth about the man who, he suspects, cloned his grandfather's identity after the war. Initial research shows that he was married to a non-Jewish Tyrolean. The Innsbruck archives contain disturbing material on the family of this still completely unknown wife, which no one in the religious community can remember either. Her father, mother and sister-in-law were illegal NSDAP members, and her brother was also a member of the SA and SS . Much more should not be revealed here out of consideration for the tension in the film. Again and again the research takes surprising turns, a second storyline arises from the encounter with descendants of this Tyrolean family.
Emergence
The two renowned filmmakers Lev and Deri, who have worked for many years as directors , but also as producers , as cameraman and academic film teacher , set out in winter 2012 at their own expense for the first days of shooting in Vienna and Innsbruck to fully exploit the potential of the then unclear history. After their return they edited a trailer and were able to win the Israeli cable channel yes docu as the first production company. In another pitching on documentary film festivals then came Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion , and through this the ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk as co-producers and -Finanziers on board.
Locations
The film was shot from 2012 to 2017 in Innsbruck , Hall in Tirol , Vienna , Munich , Zagreb , Stara Gradiška , Petach Tikva , Holon and Tel Aviv .
The book about the film
As the five years of research brought to light a large amount of material that was valuable for understanding but not usable for the film, a book about the film was soon created parallel to the shooting that tells the same story, but from a completely different perspective. If in the film it is the grandson of Ernst Bechinsky, who died in Israel, who documents his search for the person behind the identity theft, in the book Ernst Beschinsky, who died in Innsbruck, describes his view of things as an autobiographical story to a historian . The Innsbruck historian Niko Hofinger, who is involved in film research, published the book Manek's Lists at the same time as the film was first broadcast on ORF.
Awards
The film won the Best Research category at the Docaviv Festival in May 2018 . At the same festival he was honored with the audience award. In September 2018 the film was nominated in the category Best Documentary with over 60 minutes playing time at the Ophir Award , the Israeli Oscars ; In November 2018 the film received an award for Best Research at the Israeli Documentary Filmmaker Forum.
Web links
- The man who died twice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography of the Tyrolean Ernst Bechinsky on the Hohenems Genealogy website (contains spoilers)
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- ↑ http://leokino.at/index.php?disp=film&fid=F14284 Description of the film on the pages of the Innsbruck Leokino.
- ↑ Winner at Docaviv Festival 2018 (English page)
- ↑ Film review in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on the occasion of the broadcast in BR (contains spoilers)
- ↑ Manek's lists in Limbus Verlag in Innsbruck
- ↑ Report on the book and film in the Tiroler Tageszeitung (contains spoilers)