Shadows From My Past (2013)
Shadows from My Past
86 min
SHADOWS FROM MY PAST interweaves the tragic fate of one Austrian Jewish Family from Vienna. Letters written from 1939 - 1941 as they were trying to save their children and each other reverberate to today. SHADOWS features many face-to-face, unrehearsed interviews with contemporary Austrians and near past contemporary interviews including Simon Wiesenthal, Kurt Waldheim, President Heinz Fischer, Theodore Bikel, Jorg Haider, survivors and many others. SHADOWS interweaves the memories of Gita Kaufman's family with Austria's present perceptions with Austria's present perceptions of its role in the persecution and deportation of Jews during World War II. SHADOWS underlines the need for Holocaust memory preservation, tolerance education, and serves as a warning for today.
- Release date
- August 29, 2014
- Country of origin
- France, United States, Austria
Cast
- Kurt Waldheim as Self
- Simon Wiesenthal as Self
- Jörg Haider as Self
- Heinz Fischer as Self
- Wolfgang Schüssel as Self
- Walter Advokat as Self
- Lawrence Baron as Self
- Theodore Bikel as Self
- Hubertus Czernin as Self
- Paul Chaim Eisenberg as Self
Crew
- Curt Kaufman · Director
- Markus Pöchinger · Composer
- Curt Kaufman · Cinematographer
- Curt Kaufman · Editor
- Charlotte Müllner · Editor
- Michaela Müllner · Editor