An intimate story of family secrets and a father-son interview, remarkably illustrated through archival images, footage, and actual conversations. Bruno Ganz (Wings Of Desire) delivers a sublime and vulnerable performance in his final role.
Goethe Pop Up Seattle is pleased to support the online screening of
Winter Journey as a community partner at the 26th annual
Seattle Jewish Film Festival, which brings people together across the region to celebrate and showcase the vibrancy and diversity of Jewish life through cinema.
Join
Winter Journey co-screenwriter
Martin Goldsmith on
March 18 at
7:00 pm PST for a Zoom discussion about the film and how he “appears” in it. Film ticket holders will be invited to participate.
This screening will take place online. The film will be available to viewers in the U.S. for 72 hours; registration ends 2 hours before this 72-hour-window closes.
About the Film:
Denmark/Germany | 2019 | 90 minutes
American radio host Martin Goldsmith never knew what really happened to his parents Georg and Rosemarie before their escape from Germany in 1941. As he confronts his father over a long weekend several decades later, we are brought back to the 1930s, when his parents were talented musicians. After the Nuremberg Laws were enacted in 1935, they were only able to perform as members of the Jewish Cultural Federation (Kulturbund), a bizarre propaganda organization fully controlled by Joseph Goebbels and the Reich Chamber of Culture. Martin questions Georg about his time in Germany and the pact he made with the devil before fleeing to start a new life in the U.S. in 1941.
Winter Journey plays with edited archival images, historical reconstructions, and reenactments of the actual conversations Goldsmith had with his father. Goldsmith himself is the unseen interviewer, while a vulnerable Bruno Ganz (
Wings Of Desire,
The Tobacconist) performs as his father in the actor's final role.
(
Film description courtesy of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.)
About the filmmakers:
Anders Østergaard was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and is a director and writer known for
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (2008),
Gasolin' (2006) and
Tintin and I (2004). He graduated from the Danish School of Media and Journalism. His preferred approach involves both observational and expository documentary types and draws on a mix of archival material and new recordings, combining a sense of documentary authenticity with psychological intimacy.
Erzsébet Rácz was born in Hungary in 1971 and grew up behind the Iron Curtain. In 2001 she moved to Berlin and graduated in scriptwriting from the German Film and Television Academy. She is an award-winning screenwriter. She teaches at the University of Theatrea and Film Arts, Budapest, and DFFB Berlin.
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