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EAST OF WAR
JENSEITS DES KRIEGES

AUSTRIA | 1996 | DCP | COLOR | GERMAN | 117 | RUTH BECKERMANN

Director / Director: Ruth Beckermann

Fotografía / Cinematography: Peter Roehsler

Edición / Editing: Gertraud Luschtzky

Sinopsis / Synopsis:

White-tiled rooms, neon lighting, on the walls black and white photographs documenting the atrocities committed by the german Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in WW2. Against this background, former soldiers talk about their experiences beyond the bounds of normal warfare. An uncompromising film about remembrance and oblivion.

Biografía / Biography:

Ruth Beckermann was born in Vienna where she also spent her childhood. After her studies in journalism and history of art in Vienna, Tel Aviv and New York, she took her degree as Dr.phil in 1977 at the University of Vienna. She since contributed as a journalist to several Austrian and Swiss magazines.
In 1978 she co-founded the distribution company FILMLADEN in which she was active for seven years. In this period Ruth Beckermann started to make films and to write books.
Since 1985 she works as a writer and filmmaker.

Festivales / Festivals:

Viennale, Festival Internacional de Cine de Viena - Ganador: Premio de Cine de Viena, 1996, Austria
Festival Internacional de Cine de Berln - 1997, Alemania
Cinma du Rel - Ganador: Premio Bibliotecas - 1997, Francia
Cinma du Rel - Ganador: Premio especial del jurado - 1997, Francia
Festival de Cine de Jerusaln - 1997, Israel
Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de msterdam - 1997, Pases Bajos
Visions du Rel - 1997, Suiza
Dokumentarfilm Festival Nyon - 1997, Suiza
Festival de Cine de Pesaro - 1997, Italia
Duisburger Filmwoche - 1997, Alemania, Austria y Suiza.
DocumentaMadrid - 2019, Espaa

Contacto / Contact:

Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion
+43 1 9909945
+ 43 677 643 812 38
ruthbeckermann.com