Director: Chanoch Ze'evi, colour, 80 Min., 2011
We are happy to invite you to the next installment of the ArtHouse Cinema program on Tuesday, the 24th of May 2016. This time we will screen the film called
Hitler’s Children directed by
Chanoch Ze'evi.
The Israeli filmmaker Chanoch Ze’evi engages the descendants of Nazi perpetrators in a conversation and discusses how they are able to live with the crimes committed by their (grand) fathers and the question “Can there be a reconciliation?” He engages his protagonists in a conversation, because they grew up in the shadow of the mass murders committed by their (grand) fathers. Bettina Göth and Rainer Höß are the daughter and grandson of the horrific camp commanders Rudolf Höß and Armon Göth. Niklas Frank is the son of the only Governor-General of occupied Poland at the time. Bettina Göring and Katrin Himmler are both great-nieces of two influential figures, who had great authority within the Nazi murder machine: Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler. In five intertwined portraits, it is revealed that the descendants are having a hard time dealing with their terrible family history, alternating between an attitude of “breaking away from it or ignoring it”. One connecting element is the question of whether reconciliation is possible.
Arthouse Cinema
Arthouse Cinema is the regular film program of the Goethe-Institut. Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month we screen independent movies, avant-garde movies, retrospectives, experimental films or documentary films from Europe and Indonesia – anything but the mainstream.
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