Austria / Germany / France 2016
Language: English, French, German
Director: Chris Kraus
Camera: Sonja Rom
Script: Chris Kraus
Editor: Brigitta Tauchner
Cast: Adèle Haenel, Hannah Herzsprung, Lars Eidinger
Producer: Danny Krausz, Kathrin Lemme
Music: Annette Focks
Sound: Bernhard Maisch, Martins Rozentals, André Zacher
Distributer: Piffl Medien
Lenght: 125 Min.
Format: DCP
Color: Farbe
Age Limit: <

Can you make jokes about the Holocaust? Yes, is the answer, when the theme is handled by a director with integrity like Chris Kraus. For his new film, Kraus, himself a historian, has been researching the Nazi era for over ten years. The respected Holocaust researcher and misanthrope Toto Blumen (Lars Eidinger), himself the descendent of a prominent Nazi offender, has to organise an Auschwitz conference in the middle of a personal crisis. He is helped by a much younger French research assistant Zazie (Adèle Haenel), whose grandmother was killed in Auschwitz. They soon discover that they are united by a past family tragedy from long ago.