Description
Synopsis:
The story of the JüdischeKulturbund offers an intriguing insight into the early – and less known – stage of Nazi rule, where schemes for mass deportation and genocide, had not yet been developed. Instead, the regime experimented with an apartheid approach where Jews and non-Jews were to co-exist in a racial hierarchy. Many Jewish Germans co-operated, in the secret hope that Hitler would soon disappear and their civil rights restored. The whole film is laid out as a son’s investigation of his father’s past, and leads us to the issues of survivor’s guilt and the repercussions of the Holocaust in the next generations.
About the director:
Anders Østergaard was born in 1965 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated from in 1991 after training at Central Television, London. Worked as a copywriter at an advertising agency and as a researcher on documentary programmes. Østergaard was awarded Best Documentary at Odense Film Festival in 1999 for The Magus.. He is writer-director on the international co-production Tintin et moi (2003) and the documentary about one of Denmark’s most popular rock bands, Gasolin (2006). For his film BurmaV]-Reporting from a Closed Country (2008) he received an Oscar nomination and took home a record-breaking number of international awards, including IDFA’s Joris Ivens and Movies That Matter.