Unnütze Esser - Lüneburg 45
Useless Eaters - Lüneburg 45
May 1945: World War II is over. Yet even months later, children are dying at the Special Children’s Ward Lüneburg. The liberators know nothing about the fate of these victims of the Nazi regime. Today, Ilse Sievers keeps the memory of Heinrich Herold alive. For her late husband, what happened to his best friend has always been a mystery. Friedrich Buhlrich’s siblings Hans, Erika and Margret all die in Special Chrildren’s Wards. Hans-Peter Meier spends his childhood on hospital grounds, where his grandfather works as a nurse. Historian Dr. Carola Rudnick is searching for answers about the victims. In the documentary Useless Eaters, contemporary witnesses and descendants talk about the losses haunting them to this day.
Basic information
Genre: Dokumentarfilm
Production year: 2015
Running Time: 32:30 min.
Original language: Deutsch
Crew
Script: Florian Wentsch, Moritz Jakobi
Director: Moritz Jakobi
Cinematography: Matthias Maciej Rolbiecki
Film Music: Petteri Sainio, Patrick Puszko
Sound: Dominik Kostolnik, Tobias Adam
Editing: Raquel Caro Nuñez
Executive Producer: Marisa Meier
Production Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Narrator/Voice Actor: Philipp Moog
Cast
Theo Schubert, Carola Rudnick, Ilse Sievers, Friedrich Buhlrich, Hans-Peter Meier
Festivals
Olomouc International Festival of Science Documentary Films AFO 2016
New Dehli International Film Festival of New Dehli 2015
Orlando, Fl Global Peace Film Festival Orlando 2015