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Freudental

DIRECTED BY
Thomas Lahusen
in collaboration with
Steffen Pross.
Digital HD, color & black and white,
65 min.
Release: Fall 2020
The November 1938 “Night of Broken Glass” shattered
two centuries of Germans and Jews living side by side
in the village of Freudental, near Stuttgart. A personal journey into the history of a family, which survived and did not survive the Holocaust, interrogates whether today being both German and Jewish means belonging nowhere.
The film uses footage shot in many locations in Germany,
in Auschwitz, and in Toronto. It also includes archival
footage, mainly from the German Federal Archive, family
photos and documents.
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