November 30 - December
10, 2000
An Exhibition of International
Cinema
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After
the Truth
(Nichts als die Wahrheit) |
Festival
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Film
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Germany, 1999, 35mm, 128 minutes
German with English subtitles
Director: Roland
Suso Richter
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Thursday,
December 7
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6:00 pm
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$8.00
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In the chilling drama After the Truth, the film delivers Josef Mengele to present-day Berlin, where he is forced to stand trial for the atrocities which afforded him the title "Auschwitz's Angel of Death." Who better to defend Dr. Mengele (played by Götz George) than the man who has been obsessively writing his biography - Peter Rohm (played by Kai Wiesinger)? Mengele targets Rohm for his defense, and persuades him to take his case by isolating him and bombarding him with mind games, all the while using psychologically twisted rhetoric to ensnare him. The hard, cold Mengele then sits before the Berlin court in a specially constructed glass box, facing the incensed courtroom, while maintaining his callous presence.
Winner, Silver
Iris 2000, Brussels
International Film Festival
Best Actor (Götz
George)
Nominated, Crystal Star 2000, Brussels
International Film Festival
Best European
Feature (Roland Suso Richter)
Nominated, Best Actor 1999, European
Film Awards
Götz George
Nominated, German Camera Award (Feature Film) 2000,
Deutscher
Kamerapreis
Cinematographer Martin Langer
Nominated, Golden Seashell 1999, San
Sebastián International Film Festival
Director Roland Suso Richter
Welcoming Remarks
Werner Ott, Director, Goethe-Institut
Washington
Special Guests
Roland
Suso Richter, Director
Marc
Fisher, The
Washington Post Columnist, former Berlin Bureau Chief and author of
"After the Wall: Germany, the Germans and the Burdens of History."
Co-sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Washington
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| Related Web Links |
| Film Information from Amazon.com's Internet Movie Database |
| Director Roland Suso Richter's Filmography (from IMDB) |
| Film Programs at the Goethe-Institut Washington |
| Distributor: BetaFilm, an Epsilon Mediagroup Company |
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