WHO IS AFRAID OF HITLER’S TOWN?

Austrian Cinema Release: September 1

World Premiere: Opening Film @ Int. Film Festival Freistadt (Austria)

WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD

International Premiere: Hof Int. Film Festival (Germany) Oct. 2023

Press contact: Elisabeth Katzensteiner (Agentur Wolkenlos)

Mail: elisabeth@wolkenlos-agentur.at Tel: +43 664 128 3063

WHO IS AFRAID OF HITLER’S TOWN?

A house and the past within us

99 min., 5.1., 4K

A film by Günter Schwaiger

Why has no film ever been made in Austria about Hitler’s birthplace and house? This was the question director Günter Schwaiger asked himself when he began work on this film in 2018. Shortly before, the house had been expropriated by the Republic of Austria. For five years, the director accompanied the exciting developments surrounding the subsequent use of Hitler’s birthplace with a very personal view. From questioning the cliché of the “Nazi city” to surprising and outrageous discoveries, his path ultimately leads him into his own family history.

IN DEVELOPMENT

THE KIRIWINA UTOPIA

A film by Günter Schwaiger

A personal essay film about the necessity of utopias in a world full of war, consumerism and inequality. A documentary filmed on the Trobriand Islands in Melanesia and locations around the western world.