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Claude Lanzmann's THE LAST OF THE UNJUST - International Press Reviews

In almost four hours of relentless interviews and reflection, filmmaker Claude Lanzmann returns to the ghostly lands of Shoah. Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter.

Lanzmann's latest documentary THE LAST OF THE UNJUST was coproduced by Vienna based Dor Film.

Interview

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Thoughts on Soldate Jeannette:
”Chutzpah” is a word I had spelled in big letters on a board at my home. I think one should take up the cause of it. Fanni lives it and it has something amusing about it. One gets far with chutzpah and it is essential to know that chutzpah is allowed, but it is never applied because we walk around the streets completely domesticated, that chutzpah will be extinct at some point. Daniel Hoesl, Katharina Posch and Gerald Kerkletz talk about Soldate Jeannette that conquered its first audience at the Sundance Festival.

Timo Novotny: Trains of Thoughts - Interview
Urbanity just fascinates me, and my images focus on architecture. I have more affinity to architecture than people. In documentary film in particular I consider the city to be the most interesting location of all. Timo Novotny talks about his Trains of Thoughts.

Michael Haneke talks about Amour
Amour involves a thousand different things, and when I emphasize one of them, I reduce all the others. I’ve never set out to make a film about a certain theme. What led to me making this one was the question of how you deal with the death of someone you love?

Ulrich Seidl talks about PARADISE: Love
The fact that we go there to search for something we can’t find in our society, the fact that we, the rich, can afford to pay for that while the poor take advantage of this search to make money describes our world as a wholeUlrich Seidl on PARADISE: Love, the first part of his trilogy.

Sebastian Meise & Thomas Reider: Outing - Interview (E)
Statistics have come out only recently saying that in Germany alone, there are around 250.000 people with a pedophilic inclination, who do not want to act on it. Those circumstances gave us the idea to focus on a person who is as confusing as the subject itself.Sebastian Meise and Thomas Reider on their documentary Outing

Ruth Mader about
What Is Love
I wanted to maintain distance, because in certain circumstances that can create more intimacy than getting extremely close.Ruth Mader talks about What Is Love her new film selected for the Forum section at the 62nd Berlinale 2012.

Umut Dağ: Kuma - Interview
95% of films are about men, with women playing decorative roles, and they don't deserve that. An interview with Umut Dağ about his feature debut Kuma, the opening film of the 62nd Berlinale's Panorama section.

Julian R. Pölsler talks about his film adatpation of The Wall
What I wanted to do primarily was create a platform for this brilliant text that Marlen Haushofer wrote. An interview with Julian R. Pölsler on his film adaptation of The Wall.

Markus Schleinzer: Michael - Interview
In my opinion a society's development is defined by the extent it's capable of dealing with its perpretrators. Markus Schleinzer on his debute feature Michael that competes for the Palme d'or 2011.

Karl Markovics: Breathing - Interview
Roman is a day-release prisoner. He has something to take care of and must then return to his cell the same evening. What I was most interested in was this dramatic arc and the motif of movement it envelops. He moves from one area of social taboo to another, creating a field of tension where I saw a great deal of potential for a story.Karl Markovics on his first feature film Breathing

Johannes Hammel: Follow me - Interview
I was interested in the question of how to show the other side of the idyllic family life that could be found on Super 8 film in almost every home in the seventies. Johannes Hammel on his first feature film Follow me

Marie Kreutzer: The Fatherless - Interview
The subject, rebelling against a generation of adults that you don’t really have to resist, was very personal to me. Marie Kreutzer talks about her feature debut The Fatherless.

Wolfgang Murnberger: My Best Enemy - Interview
The point of My Best Enemy is that here’s finally a Jew who manages to make fools of the Nazis. That made me want to do this film even though this approach is a delicate matter. Wolfgang Murnberger on his new film My Best Enemy premiering at the Berlinale competition 2011.

Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel:La Pivellina - Interview
The documentary approach is what interests us the most in terms of filmmaking. What reality gives you just can’t be reenacted. An interview with Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel.

Susanne Brandstätter: The Future's Past - Interview
The three families in the film all have offspring under 26, who are only now - for the first time because of the Tribunal-learning what happened under the regime of the Khmer Rouge, Susanne Brandstätter on the filming of her documentary.

Jasmila Zbanic: On the Path - Interview
I liked the idea of process: being on the path means you still haven’t reached your goal, your destination. I wanted the film to be very open, trying out different paths for its characters. Luna and Amar are searching for something and haven’t found their goal yet. In order to go on, they have to search in their past and they will have to search even more in their future.Jasmila Zbanica about her new film On the Path

Jessica Hausner talks about Lourdes
That’s the perspective that interests me about religion, this dealing with a higher power that apparently doesn’t intend to protect, help and make sure that everything turns out all right.

Michael Haneke: The White Ribbon - Interview
"The film examines the issue of the conditions that lead to terrorism. To do this it employs Germany’s past, which, I would like to emphasize, is only an example. It’s important to me that the film isn’t interpreted as being solely about German Fascism, but that it more generally deals with the roots of all kinds of terrorism⎯whether politically right, politically left or religious."

Yoav Shamir: Defamation - Interview
As anti-Semitism is a very sensitive and charged issue, it meant to me that I was walking on thin ice. And when you’re walking on thin ice, you have to be very careful. An interview with Yoav Shamir about his new documentary Defamation

Nikolaus Geyrhalter and Wolfgang Widerhofer: 7915 KM - Interview
The film is road movie which was created during our journey. Interview with Nikolaus Geyrhalter and Wolfgang Widerhofer

Ulrich Seidl: Hundstage - Interview
Authenticity is this film's main attraction. I think that this is also a way of pulling your audience into another world. It's not as easy for them to stay removed in their theater seats as observers. They're drawn in and confronted with themselves. Ulrich Seidl on Hundstage

Michael Haneke: The Piano Teacher/Interview
Michael Haneke's THE PIANO TEACHER (La Pianiste/ Die Klavierspielerin) was one of the most discussed films at this year's Cannes Film Festival. It also received three of the Festivals's top awards - the Grand Prix du Jury and Best Actor Awards for Isabelle Huppert and Benoit Magimel. A conversation with Michael Haneke ...

Angelika Schuster, Tristan Sindelgruber: Spiegelgrund-Interview
"Modern history is almost always treated in an inflationary manner, and often doesn't go into much depth. The Spiegelgrund story is a classic example of attitudes towards the victims since 1945." Angelika Schuster and Tristan Sindelgruber, on the subject of Spiegelgrund Their documentary will show at Berlin?s International Forum of New Cinema.

Birgit Minichmayr: Catch A Shooting Star
She is 23, in her second season at Vienna's Burgtheater and has just finished acting in István Szábo's movie Taking Sides together with Harvey Keitel. Birgit Minichmayr will be Austria's Shooting Star at the film festival in Berlin.

Michael Haneke: Code Inconnu - Interview
Michael Haneke on his Cannes 2000 contribution Code Inconnu and his next film Die Klavierspielerin with Isabelle Huppert that started shooting in August