Die Lebenden

Sita is in her mid-20s, studies in Berlin and works as a video journalist, mainly on irrelevant fashion and lifestyle topics. She celebrates her grandfather's 95th birthday with her family in Vienna - and first encounters a few inconsistencies, then secrets and finally walls of silence and repression when she learns that as a young man in Auschwitz, he was involved in Nazi crimes as an officer. Only Sita no longer wants to look away ... "We come from the same family. There's nothing you can do about it." Barbara Albert's most daring film in many respects is a formally captivating, dense and energetic examination of her own biography, in which she wrings enormously complex aspects from a simple premise. A rediscovery!