SchulKinoTage: Film Package A

SchulKinoTage: Film Package A

The 13-minu­te excerpt from the docu­men­ta­ry WAHLKAMPF 1932 (LETZTE WAHL) offers a his­to­ri­cal per­spec­ti­ve on a tur­ning point in the histo­ry of German demo­cra­cy. In con­trast, Alain Resnais’s NIGHT AND FOG deals with the German con­cen­tra­ti­on camps, par­ti­cu­lar­ly Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the Holocaust during the Nazi regime. The fea­ture film THE WAVE pro­vi­des an ans­wer to the ques­ti­ons of how things could have come to this and what aspects of it remain rele­vant today. Using a school pro­ject as an exam­p­le, this illus­tra­tes how easi­ly aut­ho­ri­ta­ri­an ide­as can regain a foot­hold. The film pro­gram pro­vi­des an oppor­tu­ni­ty to reflect on demo­cra­cy, the cul­tu­re of remem­brance, and our own respon­si­bi­li­ty within socie­ty. (SchulKinoTage)

WAHLKAMPF 1932 (LETZTE WAHL) 
DE 1932. D: Ella Bergmann-Michel. 13 min. Documentary short. German ori­gi­nal version.

NIGHT AND FOG
Nacht und Nebel. FR 1956. D: Alain Resnais. 32 min. Documentary short. German ori­gi­nal version.

THE WAVE
Die Welle. DE 2008. D: Dennis Gansel. 107 min. Feature film. German ori­gi­nal version.