Revision (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Revision |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Philip Scheffner |
| script | Merle Kröger and Philip Scheffner |
| production | pong film in coproduction with Blinker Film, worklights media and with ZDF in cooperation with ARTE |
| camera | Bernd Meiners |
| cut | Pilip Scheffner |
Revision is a documentary film about the death of two Romanian Roma on the German-Polish border in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1992. It premiered at the Berlinale in February 2012 and was distributed in Germany in autumn 2012.
content
On June 29, 1992, a hunting accident occurred in the area of the municipality of Nadrensee in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania : the Roma Grigore Velcu and Eudache Calderar were shot in a barley field by two hunters who were hunting wild boar at dawn around 3.45 a.m. The investigation showed that a single bullet had hit both Roma in the head; the bullet had penetrated one man's head and entered the other. The accident happened in the immediate vicinity of the German-Polish border crossing in Pomellen .
The two victims had just crossed the Oder with a group of compatriots and were sneaking through a barley field in the semi-darkness when the shot was fired. At that time, Grigore Velcu's family was staying in the Gelbensande refugee home near Rostock . Velcu had gone to Romania because of several papers . Another reason was that his mother had died in Rostock and he wanted to have her remains transferred to Romania after her grave in Rostock had been desecrated several times. He secretly went to Romania because as an asylum seeker he should not have been allowed to leave the district. The family of Eudache Calderar - it was planned - would be brought later after Calderar had looked for work.
Two harvest workers later discovered the two lifeless bodies with a combine harvester; they drove towards the village to get help. However, both Roma were dead at this point.
The two hunters who fired the fatal shot have been identified; they were two people who were hunting wild boar. According to their statement, they mistook the Roma for wild boars at dusk and immediately fled when the accident happened. Her trial ended in 1999 with an acquittal for lack of evidence. The public prosecutor's office appealed against this acquittal, but it was rejected after three years.
The families of the dead received no news of the criminal proceedings, nor were they informed about the possibility of possible compensation from the hunter's insurance company.
The victims' families now live in Romania.
literature
- Hans-Jörg Rother: The wild boars were two Roma: A documentary seeks clarification in a murder case on the German-Polish border after the judiciary failed: Philip Scheffnes "Revision" , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14, 2012, page 34
Web links
- Homepage of the film
- Philipp Lichterbeck: Hunting scenes from Western Pomerania: Death of two Roma: They were killed in a cornfield in 1992, shot by hunters. Philip Scheffner's documentary “Revision” now determines what the police failed to do at the time. in: Tagesspiegel September 13, 2012
- Andreas Banaski: Documentary thriller "Revision": Shot like wild boars , in: Spiegel-Online September 13, 2012
- Revision at filmportal.de
- Revision in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jens Brinkmann: About nameless refugees and German conditions. Philip Scheffner's documentary "Revision" in the forum of the Berlinale , on Zeitgeschichte-online , March 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Hans-Jörg Rother, under literature