Silence
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Silence |
| Original title | A Wall Of Silence |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Margareta Heinrich , Eduard Erne |
| script | Margareta Heinrich , Eduard Erne |
| production | Lukas Stepanik, Roy Dames, Dieter Reifarth |
| music | Peter Ponger |
| camera | Hermann Dunzendorfer, Hans Hager, Fritz Köberl |
| cut | Paul M. Sedlacek, Regina Turkka-Schubert |
Totschweigen is a documentary by the two Austrian filmmakers Margareta Heinrich and Eduard Erne from 1994. The subject of the film is the Rechnitz massacre .
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With the help of interviews, the film tries to get closer to the unexplained circumstances of the Rechnitz massacre in 1945. It shows the unsuccessful search for the mass grave of around 200 Hungarian Jews who were then on the castle grounds.
On the night of a festival that was held in March 1945 shortly before the Red Army marched into the castle and attended by local party celebrities, SS men and Hitler Youth leaders, guests of the castle mistress, Countess Margit von Batthyány , attended according to witnesses part of the massacre. The research in connection with the film project did not reveal any new information about what happened at the time.
Awards
- Prix Futura Berlin (1995)
reception
Elfriede Jelinek made reference to the film in her play “ Rechnitz (der Würgeengel) ”
The film was released on DVD in 2019 as part of the Edition Österreichischer Film von Hoanzl and the Standard .
Web links
- Hush in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- FAZ: Interview with Eduard Erne about the film "Totschweigen"
- Die Presse: Critique of a performance of the play "Rechnitz (der Würgeengel)" by Elfriede Jelinek at the Graz theater
Individual evidence
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