Lust for life - At 103 in America
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Lust for life - At 103 in America |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Rod | |
| production | Michael Marton |
Lust for Life - At 103 in America is a German documentary directed by Michael Marton from 2008 .
The film takes up the life of Eva Ostwalt , a survivor of the Holocaust . In the television report, the 99-year-old Eva Ostwalt, who lives on her own in a suburb of Washington, was filmed in everyday life over several years. Ostwalt tells about the past and the experiences of her life.
One learns about the life of Ostwalt that she was born as the eldest of three daughters into a Jewish merchant family in Cologne. During the Second World War , she had to do forced labor for Siemens in a subcamp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp for two and a half years . Siemens compensated Ostwalt for the injustice suffered after more than 50 years.
She lost her mother in the Auschwitz extermination camp and her daughter in the bombing raid on Dresden , but even barely survived the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She survived the death march from Ravensbrück. In 1947 she married her boyfriend from childhood, Heinz Ostwalt, and emigrated with her husband to the USA.
The 45-minute film report shows that the Shoah shaped Eva Ostwalt's life into old age. Her biography "reflects the German history of the 20th century," said Marten. Even more than 60 years after the experiences in Germany, she shied away from the public. Your neighbors in the United States shouldn't know about your Jewish origins.
In addition, the 60-90 minute film To Live - what else! planned. Here the story of Eva Ostwalt is taken up again. This film is to be broadcast in English.
literature
- A century of will to live . In: Der Tagesspiegel from March 26, 2008; sighted on August 21, 2008
- Katrin Schuster: Siemens raises questions . In: Friday March 12th, 2008.
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