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Otto Neururer - Hope through Darkness

Otto Neururer – Hoffnungsvolle Finsternis (2019)

Biographical, Historical, War | Austria

Director: Hermann Weiskopf

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SYNOPSIS

In May 1940, Catholic priest Otto Neururer suffered an agonising death which lasted 36 hours in Buchenwald concentration camp. Decades later Heinz Fitz, an ageing actor, goes in search of the traces left behind by the blessed priest, together with juvenile delinquent Sofia and Fr. Anton, who is suffering from Parkinson's disease. Heinz wants to heal the shame of his father's guilt and find peace. His father was a Nazi and did horrible things.

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Writer: Peter Mair, Kirsten Ossoinig

RUNTIME: 89 min

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