The Dead and the Living
Lending her energy-filled main character her own Romanian ancestry, Austrian filmmaker Barbara Alpert re-opens the burning issue of safeguarding historical memory and modern man’s responsibility towards the past, the present and the future.
25-year-old Sita is looking for answers in her family’s past during WWII after she discovers her grandfather was a member of the SS. Her trajectory starts in Berlin and takes her all the way to Vienna, Warsow and Romania, where her family’s roots lie, along with the festering wounds and repressed guilt of her own family and the rest of Europe.
Lending her energy-filled main character her own Romanian ancestry, Austrian filmmaker Barbara Alpert re-opens the burning issue of safeguarding historical memory and modern man’s responsibility towards the past, the present and the future. Avoiding the obstacle of the eternal regurgitation of guilt, “The Dead and the Living” proposes knowing oneself and one’s identity in order to deal with the recurring nightmare of neo-Nazism. N.S.
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Εναλλακτικοί τίτλοι / Alternative titles: The Dead and the Living / Die lebenden
Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Barbara Albert
Σενάριο / Screenwriter: Barbara Albert
Φωτογραφία / DoP: Bogumil Godfrejow
Μουσική / Music: Lorenz Dangel
Μοντάζ / Editor: Monika Willi
Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast: Anna Fischer, Hanns Schuschnig August Zirner, Itay Tiran, Daniela Sea, Winfried Glatzeder
Αυστρία, Πολωνία, Γερμανία / Austria, Poland, Germany
2012
Εγχρωμο / Color
112'
Γερμανικά, Αγγλικά / German, English
* Screens on 26th September
