The Auschwitz Dialogues
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German title | The Auschwitz Dialogues |
Original title | The Auschwitz Dialogues |
Country of production | Poland , Germany |
original language | Polish , English , German , French , Italian , Hebrew , Russian, etc. a. |
Publishing year | 2007 |
length | 60 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | Marian Ehret |
script | Marian Ehret, Johan Robrechte |
production | Marian Ehret, Johan Robrechte |
camera | Marian Ehret |
cut | Marian Ehret, Johan Robrechte |
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The Auschwitz Dialogues (original title: Die Auschwitz Dialoge ) is a Polish-German documentary by director Marian Ehret from 2007.
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In the small Polish town of Auschwitz, a film team goes on a search for clues and is confronted with a bizarre dispute between Polish and Jewish memories of the Holocaust. The town's mayor, Janusz Marszałek, has built a car park and shopping center next to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Having become the victim of a political intrigue, he financially supports a children's village. But Jewish Holocaust survivors are demanding a quiet zone around the camp. This would mean that not only the business of the mayor, but also the residents of the nearby settlements, the poorest of the poor, would lose their homes. This conflict also affects the local chemical plant, which, purely in terms of location, emerged from the former German concentration camp factory "IG Farben". When the film team films the factory's marketing manager, the tapes are erased. When the mayor organized a counter-ceremony to the official memorial event on January 27, 2005 and invited Polish right-wing extremists, there was a confrontation between Polish and Jewish memory of the Holocaust.
Reviews
The magazine film-dienst attests to the film in its issue 26/2008 interesting food for thought and an abundance of facts, however criticizes the fact that the different positions are not worked out clearly enough. The German-language Jewish website haGalil, on the other hand, praised its article dated May 27, 2008 as a dichotomy in which the same story is told once from a Polish and once from a Jewish perspective. The Berlin city magazine ZITTY rated the film in its 21/2008 issue with thumb symbols as "Very good" and considered it to be an important documentary of the times.
Awards
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival 2007
- Nomination in the A38 Production Grant category
Web links
- The Auschwitz-Dialogues in the Internet Movie Database (English)