Film screening and discussion with the director Nils Olger
A/D 2018, documentary, 102 min | Dt. OV with some English subtitles | Directed, written and produced by: Nils Olger | Camera: Nils Olger, Juri Schaden, Thomas Marshall | Music: Vinzenz Schwab | Sound: Oliver Brunbauer | With: Ingeborg Jürgenssen, Olaf Johann Oskar Jürgenssen, Giorgio Mori, Roberto Oligeri, Carlo Gentile, and others
After the death of his grandfather, director Nils Olger receives the cassette with photo negatives, which the doctor and former SS-Untersturmführer had made as a member of a reconnaissance unit of the infamous 16th Panzer Division "Reichsführer SS". When their former commander Walter Reder returned to Austria in 1985 under scandalous circumstances from his imprisonment in Italy, the unbelievable horror trail of the Nazi murder squad, which is meticulously traced here, was not yet fully known. A film from Austria that should have been made long ago. Now it exists, vividly and precisely. (Stephan Settele)
Nils Olger is a filmmaker and artist living in Vienna. He studied post-conceptual art, new media and social work. He is involved in film, political, editorial and performance collectives. An iron cassette is his first feature-length documentary film.
The screening will be followed by a film discussion with the director Nils Olger and Johannes Spies (erinnern.at).
An event of Filmforum Bregenz in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Hohenems and _erinnern.at_
Watch the trailer here!