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Gebirtig- Robert Schindel, Lukas Stepanik
Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, Gebirtig offers a cogent and scathing indictment of Austria's complicity in Nazi atrocities a half-century ago. Set in 1987, the year in which the "Waldheim affair" caused a wave of negative headlines for Austria around the world, the story follows Hermann Gebirtig, a Jewish emigrant now established in New York as a successful composer. Gebirtig believes that he has left his concentration camp experience as well as his Viennese hometown far behind. History however, catches up with him in the shape of beautiful Viennese journalist Susanne, who uses her charm and stubbornness to convince him to face his past and testify against a former concentration-camp guard known as "the Skullcracker of Ebensee." As the past becomes present, many lives will never be the same, including those of journalist Conrad Sachs, son of a high-ranking SS officer, and Susanne's father Karl, once a political prisoner in the Ebensee camp. This year's Austrian submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. (115 mins.) Print courtesy of the Austrian Film Commission. First Feature.
Showtimes: 2/15, 1pm and 2/16, 8:30pm BW.