The living
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The living |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Barbara Albert |
| script | Barbara Albert |
| music | Lorenz Dangel |
| camera | Bogumił Godfrejów |
| cut | Monika Willi |
| occupation | |
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Die Lebenden is a German film drama from 2012 directed by Barbara Albert . Anna Fischer as Sita and Hanns Schuschnig as Gerhard Weiss play the leading roles .
action
Sita is a 25-year-old Romanian-Austrian student who earns her living at a television station in Berlin.
Her private life is chaotic - after a work colleague ends his affair with her, she meets the photo artist Jocquin in a club, with whom she spends the night.
After the 95th birthday of her grandfather, who comes from Transylvania, Sita finds a photo of him in SS uniform. Frightened and curious, she goes looking for the background against her father's will.
After the death of her grandfather, she receives support in her search from the previously unknown uncle Michael Weiss, whom she met at the funeral. He is the black sheep of the family who has already written a critical book on family history and is therefore ostracized by his father. Sita realizes that both her beloved grandfather and father tried to hide the truth of the past from her and to suppress it from themselves. Old video interviews that Michael had with her grandfather and in which he talks about his past round off this picture - "In Auschwitz I thought I was dreaming, it wasn't me, that was someone else. I feel at all not guilty."
After researching in Vienna, she finally came to Warsaw, where she met the American and political activist Silver, who lived there. Through her, Sita finally got the documents that prove that her grandfather served in the SS and was a security guard in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Back in Berlin, she meets Jocquin, who was believed to be lost.
Web links
- The survivors in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official page for the film
criticism
According to SpiegelOnline, " the protagonist tirelessly digs through archives, questions the family manically, but it never gives a complete picture, which makes the film on the one hand exhausting, but also so honest. " For Die Welt, " the film gets in its way " .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the living . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2013 (PDF; test number: 138 167 K).
- ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Nazi family drama "The Living": Horror trip to one's own family. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Cosima Lutz: When the granddaughter reveals Grandpa's SS past . In: Welt Online . May 30, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed April 18, 2016]).