Synopsis
- The blue sky arching above the young boy in Auschwitz-Birkenau is his refuge. And so it remains. Otto Dov Kulka, survivor of the Family Camp and prominent historian, long retained deep within himself the memories of his childhood. When at an advanced age he decides to share them, he succeeds in the impossible – his renowned book Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death invents a wholly new language for living with Auschwitz.
In his diaries, dreams and tape recordings, he crafts landscapes. The film mirrors them in the images of the Dead Sea, orange groves, Jerusalem‘s Old City. Words and images meld, in a fusion poetic, horrific – they testify to the burden of living on, the sheer power of survival. Tireless in pursuit, Otto Dov Kulka explores the question of the origin of Evil. And he reveals a pact which has brought him to the point where he can unlock and open his interior world.
Crew
- Director: Stefan Auch
- Director of photography: Katinka Zeuner
- Editor (Cut): Anna Theil
- Sound: Oliver Eberhard
- coproduced by: OUT OF FOCUS FilmproduktionfilmArche e.V.
