Endlich Tacheles - Filmvorführung & Gespräch

In the organizer's words:

Followed by a film talk with the directors Jana Matthes and Andrea Schramm

Location: Ballhaus Prinzenallee (https://www.ballhausprinzenallee.de/)
Admission: 19:00
Free admission and free popcorn.

Yaar is a young Jewish Berliner who dreams of becoming a game designer. He associates Judaism with nothing but victims who let themselves be led to the slaughter. He accuses his father of suffering from the Holocaust, which he did not even experience himself. Out of rebellion, Yaar wants to develop a computer game: "Shoah. When God slept." In the Germany he created around 1940, Jews can defend themselves and Nazis can act humanely. Yaar's father is shocked.

He finds comrades-in-arms for the development of his computer game in his friends Sarah and Marcel. Yaar makes his grandmother Rina the role model for the young Jewish woman in the game. Her opponent, an SS officer, is inspired by one of Marcel's real-life ancestors. The three of them agree: the old roles of perpetrator and victim are getting in their way, and the past should finally be over! They travel together to Rina's birthplace Krakow, where Yaar uncovers a terrible family secret.

The game turns serious. The three friends realize what the events of the past have to do with themselves - as grandchildren of the victims and perpetrators of the past. A painful confrontation with their own history begins, which also changes the relationship between father and son.

ENDLICH TACHELES shows how the trauma of the survivors eats into the third generation and poses a highly topical question from the perspective of a 21-year-old: What does the Holocaust still have to do with me today?

D 2021, Written and directed by Andrea Schramm & Jana Matthes, Language: German, FSK 12, RFF Filmverleih

Jana Matthes and Andrea Schramm work as directors and producers for arte, 3sat, ARD and ZDF. After studying television journalism in Leipzig and documentary film directing in Potsdam-Babelsberg, they founded SCHRAMM MATTHES FILM together. They depict complex socio-political developments in powerful personal stories. Their films have been shown at international festivals and have won various awards, including the German Television Award and the Discovery Channel Award.

The event is taking place as part of the "Made in Soldiner" project (https://www.madeinsoldiner.de/) on behalf of the Soldiner Straße neighborhood management. The event is being organized by georg+georg in cooperation with Ballhaus Prinzenallee.