Film & Theater

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Accompanying program to "The Passenger"

Wed 22/01/25
Treasure
Film by Julia von Heinz (Germany/France 2024)
In the 1990s, successful New York businesswoman Ruth (Lena Dunham) decides to travel to Poland to investigate her family's past. Her father Edek (Stephen Fry) only narrowly escaped being murdered by the Nazis. He has never spoken to his daughter about his experiences in Auschwitz. Now he accompanies her on a journey that shows how the shadows of Auschwitz still loom large in both their lives decades later.

Wed 19/02/25
The Passenger - Welcome to Germany
Film by Thomas Brasch (Germany/Switzerland/Great Britain 1988)
In this 1988 film, Tony Curtis plays a Hollywood director who returns to Germany for a film project in order to get to the bottom of his own past. As a minor extra, he had worked on a Nazi film during the war. His friend died during filming in an unexplained way. Thomas Brasch's film uses artfully stylized scenes to explore questions of guilt, betrayal and the search for truth.