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“What happened back then still resonates today. One can see it in the protagonists’ faces, it is reflected in the landscape, the camp, the village.” (Simon Wieland) 18
INTERVIEW WITH THE DIRECTOR 1. What was your personal motivation to make a film about Mauthausen? Mauthausen, like Auschwitz, is a synonym for the Holocaust, for the terrible crimes of National Socialism, for guilt and shame. Austrians have the Holocaust in their minds, the people in Mauthausen have it in front of their eyes every day, whether they want to or not. I was interested in how the local residents, who were very young at the time, deal with this past of theirs to this day. Two completely opposite fates occurred here in immediate vicinity: that of the concentration camp detainees and that of the residents of Mauthausen. Were there parallels and similarities, to what extent did these lifelimotines cross? I wanted to deal with those questions cinematically. 2. Was it easy to raise the funding? Fortunately yes, the film funding sources very quickly recognized the importance of the topic and the dramatics of the history. 3. Concerning research: How did you go about gathering information, where did you search for archive footage? How long did it take? The research was mainly done by the journalist Andreas Kuba. As co-founder of „a letter to the stars“, he was able to draw on the association‘s extensive database of contemporary witnesses. The search for archive material, however, turned out to be more difficult. On the one hand, we were able to access the archives of the Mauthausen Memorial, but on the other hand, my production manager Michael Holzinger had to do research in Poland, France and the USA. 19
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Page 7 and 8: ABOUT THE FILM The documentary MAUT
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Page 13 and 14: “I remember when the people were
Page 15 and 16: Quotes by Franz Hackl „We were ve
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