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Deckert Distribution presents:
From Dachau with Love
 

From Dachau with Love
Grüsse aus Dachau

Director:
Bernd Fischer

Production:
Egoli Tossell Film München GmbH

Germany 2003
DV Pro
58 / 77 min

Dachau - a name (in)famous like few others. Yet this gemütlich little Bavarian town yearns to be just another place name on the map of Germany. Alas - there is no magic solution for disconnecting Dachau from its grim past. Though this does not stop the good citizens of Dachau from trying: they are fighting a hopeless - and typically German - battle to keep the ghosts of the past at bay. But history sticks like chewing gum to a shoe.

Bernd Fischer, a young filmmaker who grew up in Dachau, but moved away after school, introduces us to his home town. The actors are tourists and locals, camp survivors and their heirs, the Bavarian riot police, who train next door in the former SS-barracks and a very talkative nun, who has spent the last 35 years in a convent of silence on the KZ-grounds.
A surprising tragi-comic portrait of a unique place.

Original Language: German
English Subtitles

Festival Selection:
Berlinale 2003
Goteborg Int. Film Festival 2003
Message to Man St. Petersburg 2003
Washington Jewish Film Festival 2003
Chicago Documentary Film Festival 2004