Press Booklet MAUTHAUSEN - TWO LIVES

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“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.” (Simon Wieland) 26
conducted. In my last film, „Our Struggle,“ about a Holocaust survivor and her Israeli family, the grandson said something very wise about this: „I don‘t hate anyone, because it was hatred that led to fascism with all its terrible consequences.“ 16. In your film you tried to show the past of the protagonists in as much detail as possible, but you don‘t ask any questions of a moral nature. Why not? I leave it to the viewer to ask these questions. As a documentary filmmaker, I see it as my task to report on what happened at that time, without bias and as objectively as possible, and without ideological spin. After all, the events speak for themselves. 17. In the film we can observe a contrast: Stanisław Leszczyński‘s mother risked her life to save others, while Franz was portrayed only as an observer of evil. Did you ask him whether he once tried to do something about it? Do you think that people „outside“ felt like they could do nothing about it? Franz Hackl says: „The local population knew what was going on in the concentration camp, but what could they have done? The slightest attempt to help would mean that the person would possibly end up in the concentration camp themselves.“ I don‘t see myself as a moralist who now, with the grace of late birth, lectures people from a safe haven about what they did wrong back then. 18. In the film you focused on two stories, namely what Stanisław and Franz experienced. However, we learn little about their relationships with other people with whom they shared these experiences. Stanisław‘s brother, for example, was also a prisoner in Mauthausen. Let’s talk about collective memory and the experience of psychological depth – didn‘t it appeal to you to add these aspects to the film as well? 27
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Page 5 and 6: TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THE FILM 7
Page 7 and 8: ABOUT THE FILM The documentary MAUT
Page 9 and 10: THE PROTAGONISTS OF THE FILM STANIS
Page 11 and 12: „“I swore never to be silent wh
Page 13 and 14: “I remember when the people were
Page 15 and 16: Quotes by Franz Hackl „We were ve
Page 17 and 18: DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT ON THE FILM
Page 19 and 20: INTERVIEW WITH THE DIRECTOR 1. What
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Page 23 and 24: ened. They relive their history. Th
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Page 29 and 30: “The past is the fundament of our
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Page 33: CONTACT DETAILS FILMMAKER Simon Wie

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