Memento

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Memento

Memento
Karlheinz Mund
Retrospective 2021
Documentary Film
GDR
1966
16 minutes
German
subtitles: 
None

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Karlheinz Mund
Karlheinz Mund
Bodo Schulenburg
Christian Lehmann
Werner Kohlert
Inge Dochow
Rolf Rolke
Otto Koch
Hilmar Thate
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

After studying at the German Academy of Film Art Potsdam-Babelsberg, Karlheinz Mund made this documentary tour of Jewish cemeteries in Berlin. The gravestones preserve the names of famous and unknown people. They preserve their places of death, where no distinction was made between the famous and the unknown: Auschwitz, Mauthausen. When the West German Short Film Festival invited Mund’s film, the committees in charge enforced one distinction after all: The images of graves defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti taken from the West German press were allowed to remain, footage of the same content filmed in East Berlin had to be removed for the theatrical release in the GDR.

Sylvia Görke