KZ
Wed 25 Oct 2006 9pm
Powerful documentary about KZ, the former concentration camp in Austria, from Rex Bloomstein.
On the banks of the river Danube, surrounded by the beautiful landscape of Upper Austria, lies the picturesque town of Mauthausen. Two kilometers from its town centre is a place that attracts bikers, busloads of tourists, parties of schoolchildren, people from all over the world. Tour guides come to work here every day, while the locals go about their daily lives. This is a place where thousands upon thousands of people from over 30 nations were tortured and murdered.
This site is the former KZ, German short for concentration camp. How does it feel to be a tourist at a former concentration camp?
How does it feel to work here as a guide, day in day out? How does it feel to live here as a local with the dark secrets of the past? And what of those who've chosen this town to be their new home?
This is a groundbreaking film about facing our ultimate demons. It is a contemporary yet timeless piece on the horrors that we have and always will be able to inflict on one another.
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The tour guide takes the tourists to Block no. 1, and runs through the categorisation of internees |
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