The Pannwitzblick

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Movie
Original title The Pannwitzblick
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1991
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Didi Danquart
script Didi Danquart
music Cornelius Schwehr
camera Ciro Cappellari,
Dietrich Reichenbach
cut Simone Bräuer
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The Pannwitzblick is a German documentary film by the director Didi Danquart , which addresses the social perspective on people with disabilities. It received the 1991 Documentary Award from Film Critics and was shown at the Chicago International Film Festival , among others . The text was written by the writer Christian Geissler .

content

The content of the film focuses on the complex of issues of “unworthy life”. Danquart juxtaposes film material and memories from the time of National Socialism with the euthanasia debate of the present and the personal stories of people with disabilities.

The title is based on a note by the Italian-Jewish writer Primo Levi , whom the concentration camp doctor Pannwitz, who selected prisoners from the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps for a chemical plant in German industry, had ordered death in Auschwitz:

"But if I could explain down to the last detail the peculiarity of that gaze which, like through the glass wall of an aquarium, was exchanged between two living beings that inhabited different elements, I would have also explained the essence of the great madness of the Third Reich."

reception

The lexicon of international films spoke of a "committed film that rigorously defends the needs of the disabled, for whom the lack of understanding and helplessness of the environment still make it difficult to assert themselves". In the jury's statement of the documentary film award, it is said that in the film a "problem that is still taboo in the public eye" is opened up in a "complex way using different and targeted cinematic means". In contrast to other documentaries, the “commentary has a poetic quality”. The film takes a "position without providing ready-made answers".

literature

  • Udo Sierck, Didi Danquart (Ed.): The Pannwitzblick. How violence against the disabled arises. Libertarian Association, 1993, ISBN 978-3-922611-29-5 .
  • Eleoma Joshua, Michael Schillmeier (Eds.): Edinburgh German Yearbook 4: Disability in German Literature, Film, and Theater Boydell & Brewer Inc, 2010, ISBN 978-1-57113-428-8 , pp. 215-239; Preview the book in Google Book Search.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Speakers A - E: Prof. Didi Danquart . documentarfilmforschung.de, accessed on August 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed August 3, 2015. (English)
  3. ↑ The Pannwitzblick. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 1, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ The Pannwitzblick . didi-danquart.de, accessed on August 3, 2015.