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Section: Documentary Films
Brundibár – Bridges across Time and Space (2016)
In September 2015, 22 students from Neue Musikmittelschule Wiener Neustadt take a trip to the former Theresienstadt ghetto. It’s here where the children’s opera ‘Brundibár’ was originally performed that they wish to prepare for their own interpretation of this work of music. They are the same age as the original children were who performed it: 12-14 years old. The city’s past is still palpable, When the children meet Evelina Merová, an 85-year-old witness to what happened here in 1943, when she was just a girl of 13, she passes on a legacy to them: “Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated. Follow your conscience. Think twice. Human values lie inside a person, not in his or her outer appearance...“
| Country | Austria |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Duration | 88 min |
| Rating | 12 |
| Language | German |
| Subtitle | English, Czech |
| Directed by | Arno Aschauer |
| Screenplay | Arno Aschauer |
| Director of Photography | Ella Esque, Arno Aschauer, Fritz Zorn |
| Music | Hans Krasá |
| Edited by | Patrick Spanbauer, Fritz Zorn |
| Contact | Institut für Film & Systemisches Storytelling |
Biography
An Austrian screenwriter, director and journalist, he's worked in education for many years, primarily in the field of screenwriting and lecturing for filmmakers and actors. He is the artistic director of the SystemiKinema Institute in Vienna. He's worked in the TV environment and taught at university. He's directed, e.g. Brundibár – Building Bridges over Time and Space (Brundibár – Brücke über Zeit und Raum, 2016).