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Director Sohrab Shahid Saless tells of the persistence of anti-Semitism in post-war Germany.
Frankfurt during the Nazi era: teenage Hans is living a marginalized existence. His mother, a depressed factory worker, receives threatening letters calling her a “Jew whore”. His grandmother is ill, bedridden, and wants to die. And Hans has never met his Jewish father. Danger lurks everywhere: people have been turned in by their neighbors or killed in air raids since the war started. One day, the Gestapo are at the door. Hans runs away.
An event in cooperation with the SHAHID SALESS ARCHIVE The 4K restoration, supported by the Goethe-Institut, Hessischer Rundfunk and Filmgalerie 451, will be presented by Vivien Buchhorn, film historian and initiator of the SHAHID SALESS ARCHIVE.
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Before the film: Introduction by Vivien Buchhorn
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Meet the director
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Screenwriter and filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-1998) is considered one of the driving forces behind the “New Iranian Wave”. He left Iran in 1974 after two award-winning feature films and continued his work in exile in Germany. Here he made 13 feature and documentary films in which he addressed the repressed confrontation with the Nazi era, anti-Semitism and racism.