Totschweigen
Documentary Film, AT/DE/NL 1994, DCP, 89 min, dOFDuring excavations on the outskirts of Rechnitz, what was long repressed comes to the surface: in the last days of World War II, 180 Jewish forced laborers were murdered and buried here. Isidor Sandorffy attempts to have the victims exhumed and buried according to Jewish tradition—and in doing so, meets a wall of silence.
Content Notes:
Totschweigen addresses war crimes and the Holocaust
Director: Margareta Heinrich, Eduard Erne
Script: Margareta Heinrich, Eduard Erne
Camera: Hermann Dunzendorfer, Hans Hager, Fritz Köberl
Editor: Paul M. Sedlacek, Regina Turkka-Schubert
Location Sound: Oliver Stummer
Music: Peter Ponger
Producers: Lukas Stepanik, Roy Dames, Dieter Reifarth
Production: Extrafilm
Co-production: Strandfilm (DE), Nederlands Film Institut (NL)
Script: Margareta Heinrich, Eduard Erne
Camera: Hermann Dunzendorfer, Hans Hager, Fritz Köberl
Editor: Paul M. Sedlacek, Regina Turkka-Schubert
Location Sound: Oliver Stummer
Music: Peter Ponger
Producers: Lukas Stepanik, Roy Dames, Dieter Reifarth
Production: Extrafilm
Co-production: Strandfilm (DE), Nederlands Film Institut (NL)
