Holocaust Remembrance Day

Austerlitz

Credits

Country :

Germany

Year :

2016

Director :

Sergei Loznitsa

Version :

vostEN

Duration :

94 minutes

Format :

digital

Awards :

Nomination Best European Documentary, European Film Awards 2017

In partnership with Zentrum fir politesch Bildung, Luxembourg City Film Festival, Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse, Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, SCRIPT and IFEN

🗣️ Followed by a discussion with Gian Maria Tore (Assistant Professor in Film, Art, and Media, Uni.lu) and the audience | in French

synopsis

Placing his camera among visitors wandering through the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps, Sergei Loznitsa invites us to reflect upon the dynamics between history, memory and tourism.

Loznitsa shows you the central activity: looking. Everyone is looking, looking, looking. Looking at what? Buildings, walls, yards, enclosures. The victims are not there. The war criminals are not there. The past is not there. Perhaps each new tourist erodes the site further until all that is left is dust. But visiting these sites is not meaningless and not wrong. It is part of human curiosity, which is better than indifference or forgetting.

The Guardian