Friendly Fire
Documentary Film, AT/DE 2025, DCP, 112 min, OmdUErich Fried (1921–1988) wrote famous love poems, but the heart of his career was political discourse: he was concerned with the Holocaust, left-wing protest, pacifism, the Middle East conflict, and the Cold War. As Klaus Fried, his son, says, he didn’t have much time left for his children. Coming together in his documentary collage about his father, a stranger to him, are personal emotions, talks with family members, Fried experts and companions, as well as a wealth of archive material, and Erich Fried’s poems.
Director: Klaus Fried, Julia Albrecht
Script: Klaus Fried, Andrew Hood
Camera: Ralf Ilgenfritz
Editor: Julia Albrecht
Location Sound: Matthias Kreitschmann
Sounddesign: Adrian Lo
Additional Credits: Zweite Kamera: Matthias Kreitschmann; Mischung: Adrian Lo; Redaktion rbb: Jens Stubenrauch, Rolf Bergmann
Producers: Ralph Wieser, Gunter Hanfgarn, Andrea Ufer
Production: Mischief Films, Hanfgarn & Ufer (DE)
Co-production: im Auftrag von Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)
Funded by: Stadt Wien MA 7
Nationalfonds der Republik Österreich für Opfer des Nationalsozialismus
Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich
World Premiere: Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München 2025
Austrian Premiere: Diagonale '26
Production format: digital
Script: Klaus Fried, Andrew Hood
Camera: Ralf Ilgenfritz
Editor: Julia Albrecht
Location Sound: Matthias Kreitschmann
Sounddesign: Adrian Lo
Additional Credits: Zweite Kamera: Matthias Kreitschmann; Mischung: Adrian Lo; Redaktion rbb: Jens Stubenrauch, Rolf Bergmann
Producers: Ralph Wieser, Gunter Hanfgarn, Andrea Ufer
Production: Mischief Films, Hanfgarn & Ufer (DE)
Co-production: im Auftrag von Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)
Funded by: Stadt Wien MA 7
Nationalfonds der Republik Österreich für Opfer des Nationalsozialismus
Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich
World Premiere: Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München 2025
Austrian Premiere: Diagonale '26
Production format: digital
