Finde 20 Ähnliche Filme zum Film Shadows from My Past von Curt Kaufman (II) und Gita Kaufman mit Gita Kaufman, wie Finding Fela!,Tom Hanks: Die Lincoln-Verschwörung. Austria Top 40 - austriancharts.at österreichische Charts. La Magra - The Shadows Of My Past. Cover La Magra - The Shadows Of My Past Cover. Kaufen: - Digital auf hitparade.ch. - CD auf exlibris.ch. Meine Bewertung: Persönliche Charts: In persönliche Hitparade hinzufügen. Keine Platzierungen in der offiziellen Schweizer Hitparade. SHADOWS FROM MY PAST. Regie: Curt Kaufmann. Gita Kaufmann musst 1940 mit Ihrer Familie aus Wien fliehen. Erst nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter in den 1970er Jahren beginnt sie sich mit der österreichsichen Vergangenheit zu beschäftigen. Die Briefe aus dem Nachlass der Mutter. Journalist Gita Kaufmann| Photo: Matthias Wurz This simple, uncoated honesty characterises the film, a lo-fi, but penetrating chronicle of letters that trace her family’s fate as the power of National Socialism took hold of the Austrian capital. However, this is much more than the story of one family – it is also an overarching exploration of Austrian social and cultural history during the time of the Third Reich, and a useful reminder of the complex issues behind the so-called “first victim” debate. “I didn’t know exactly what we were getting into,” said Gita Kaufman, whose husband died in late 2011. ![]() What started ten years ago as an intimate family portrait evolved into an expanded study of Austria’s ongoing struggle to come to terms with its Nazi past, to help lift the veil of secrecy and denial that has characterised the post-war decades. With the support of the Austrian historian Dr. Oliver Rathkolb, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, and the Bruno Kreisky Forum, the scope of the Kaufmans’ project grew. Wolfgang Schüssel![]() Born in 1936, Gita Kaufman fled with her family in 1940 for the U.S. – on the day she was to be sent to Dachau. ![]() She returned only in the late 1990s to face this dark story in search of the lost history of her kin. But as the Kaufmans researched, they became embroiled in the complex and misunderstood history of Austria as both a victim and a perpetrator of Nazi crimes. “How could it have happened in this beautiful, cultured country?” Gita Kaufman recalled in a recent interview with The Vienna Review. “I just wanted to know how it had happened.” The debate surrounding Waldheim Shadows From My Past is impressive for the breadth of its detail and comprehensiveness of the interviews, while not allowing itself to stray from the central themes, as so easily happens in research-heavy documentaries. The episodic format, which culls together several historical narratives, employs a more recent style of documentary filmmaking best exemplified perhaps by Spike Lee’s 2010 work on Hurricane Katrina, If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise – disjointed and nonlinear, creating many sub-narratives that orbit the central theme. ![]() ![]() Jörg HaiderFrom the pre- Anschluss presence of the National Socialists in Austria to the millennia-old promulgation of Christian anti-Semitism, the Kaufmans navigate their way through Austrian political and intellectual circles, interviewing top politicians like Austrian President Heinz Fischer, former Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel and Freedom Party leader Jörg Haider, as well as with famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and former U.N. Secretary General and later Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, whose controversial record as a Wehrmacht officer first brought discussion of the fallacies of the “first victim” narrative into the Austrian mainstream. Indeed, some of the most powerful moments of the documentary are the well-edited transitions from interviewees slinging accusations and vitriol at the elder statesman, to those who offer a cautious appraisal of the details of Waldheim’s “Nazism”, to Waldheim’s own, almost dismissive, defense of himself.
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