Gebürtig

1987, in the middle of the Waldheim affair. Jewish emigrant Hermann Gebirtig has made a life for himself as a successful pop composer in New York and believes his past, like his old homeland, is long behind him. But history catches up with him when a journalist from Vienna persuades him to testify against a former concentration camp guard. GEBÜRTIG is melancholic, provocative, ironic and humorous. ‘It's not a film about coming to terms with the past, but a film about coming to terms with the present. That is crucial. Because you can't really have come to terms with the past. You can only come to terms with how it affects the present ...’ (Robert Schindel) (red)