Der dritte Bruder | Stranger Than Fiction | mit Filmgespräch

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THE THIRD BROTHER

D 2024 - 110' - DF - Director: Kathrin Jahrreiß

With director Kathrin Jahrreiß as a guest!

While searching for her father's mother, the director comes across the story of three brothers who are torn between the fronts of political ideologies in the Third Reich and divided Germany. Hermann makes a career as an international lawyer for the Nazis and defends a war criminal in Nuremberg after the war. His brothers have Jewish wives.
Walther flees to America in time, Otto, "the third brother" and the filmmaker's grandfather, believes in the rule of law as a lawyer and wants to stay in Dresden.
His wife Ruth is denounced and murdered in Auschwitz. He tells his sons that she died in a sanatorium and from then on she disappears in a fog of impotent repression. In the GDR, Otto himself becomes a denouncer through the Stasi. Was he a victim or do you always have a choice?

The cinematic journey reveals how the third brother's decisions shaped the family for generations and how repression and speechlessness were passed on. As a kind of deep drilling into a German-Jewish family history from the Nazi era, through divided post-war Germany to the present day, the film poses the very contemporary question of one's own attitude towards a totalitarian regime.

As part of the Stranger Than Fiction documentary film festival!

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