The women of Ravensbrück
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The women of Ravensbrück |
| Country of production | FRG |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Loretta Walz |
| script | Thomas Walther Loretta Walz |
| production | Loretta Walz |
| music | Jens-Uwe Bartholomäus |
| camera | Lars Maibaum, Rolf Schnieders, Peter Badel, Frank Zeller, Thomas Walther |
| cut | Thomas Walther |
Die Frauen von Ravensbrück is a documentary film released in 2005 with more than 200 interviews with survivors of the notorious women's concentration camps Moringen , Lichtenburg and Ravensbrück .
For 25 years, the director Loretta Walz asked women from Western and Eastern Europe not only about their experiences in National Socialist concentration camps , but also about their entire lives. Your film won the 2006 Adolf Grimme Prize in the “Information & Culture” competition category.
Content
During the Second World War , more than 100,000 women from countries in Western and Eastern Europe were imprisoned in Ravensbrück. Tens of thousands died.
For those who survived imprisonment, the constant threat of death, hunger and epidemics caused permanent damage to their bodies and minds.
In the film, 48 women tell of the humiliating arrival, roll call , forced labor , medical experiments , sterilization and hunger.
rating
Quote from the Grimme jury: “But the focus of the film is the vivid and precise memory of women. Especially the concrete and individually shaped stories, the details, in which the whole cruelty of life and death in the camp is expressed, leave a lasting impression on the viewer. "
literature
- Loretta Walz: "And then you come there on a beautiful summer day". The women of Ravensbrück . Kunstmann, 2005. ISBN 3888973880
- Jack G. Morrison: Ravensbrück. Life in a concentration camp for women 1939–1945 . Pendo, 2002. ISBN 3858424862
- Germaine Tillion : Ravensbrück women's concentration camp . Fischer, Frankfurt 2001. ISBN 359614728X