Sühnhaus
Documentary Film, AT 2016, Farbe, 99 min.
Diagonale 2017
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Director, Script: Maya McKechneay
Camera: Martin Putz
Editor: Oliver Neumann
Producers: Oliver Neumann, Sabine Moser
Production: FreibeuterFilm
Maya McKechneay’s essay film tells the story of an unlucky address: hundreds of people burned to death in the Ringtheater at Vienna’s Schottenring 7, and this was only the first in a long series of tragedies that repeated schematically at this site. A cinematic search for clues that fluctuates between horror film and historical review while keeping a lookout for ghosts haunting society and its historiography.