Anders Østergaard
Winter Journey
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Winter Journey

Winter Journey

Anders Østergaard

2019
87 min.
Denmark
English and German
Subtitles: Catalan, Spanish and English

Bruno Ganz says farewell with a performance, where past and present, reality and fiction, intertwine to help us understand the complexity of 1930s Germany.

Datasheet

Show
Direction
Anders Østergaard
Sound
Sound Design
Production
Mette Heide, Thomas Kufusr, Tassilo Aschauer
Co-director
Erzsebet Racz
Film editor
Anders Villadsen
Synopsis

The unforgettable Bruno Ganz says farewell with a memorable performance, where past and present, reality and fiction, intertwine to help us understand the complexity of 1930s Germany and Hitler’s rise to power. We cannot forget where we come from if we want to have a more dignified future. In Winter Journey everything is possible because it is not just any documentary.

Martin Goldsmith, a well-known American radio host, was raised in Arizona in a middle-class residential area where his parents, two Jewish musicians who had immigrated to the United States, avoided talking about the past. Martin began his research and stumbled across an fascinating tale where love, the Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels, and an unlikely German Jewish cultural institution protected by the Third Reich, mixed. In the last years of his father's life, when he was already a widower, he persuaded him to be interviewed and ended up writing a book about his incredible story.Winter Journey relies on Martin's book to show us through archival footage, fictional scenes, a fake director and a re-created interview, Pre-Nazi Germany as we had never seen it before.

About the direction
Anders Østergaard

Anders Østergaard

Director

Graduated from the Danish School of Media and Journalism in 1991 after training at Central Televisio...

Awards and festivals

Haag Amnesty Int. Movies that Matter Festival
Netherlands, 2020
CPH:DOX
Denmark, 2020
IDFA
Netherlands, 2019
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Reviews

Extraordinary tale about the life of Martin Goldsmith’s Jewish parents, who fled Nazi Germany.

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