"On the banks of the river Danube, surrounded by the beautiful landscape of Upper Austria, lies the picturesque town of Mauthausen. Two kilometers from its town centre is a place that attracts bikers, busloads of tourists, parties of schoolchildren, people from all over the world. Tour guides come to work here every day, while nearby the locals go about their daily lives. This is a place where thousands upon thousands of people from over thirty nations were tortured and murdered. This site is the former KZ -- in German short for concentration camp. How does it feel to be a tourist at a former concentration camp? How does it feel to work here as a guide, day in, day out? How does it feel to live here as a local alongside the dark secrets of the past? And what of those who've chosen this town to be their new home? Stripped of the usual dramatic devices -- survivor testimonies and archive footage -- this is a radical, groundbreaking film about us facing our ultimate demons. It is a contemporary yet timeless piece on the horrors that the human race has and perhaps always will be inflicting on one another." (Human Rights Watch Film Festival) Cosponsored with Students for Tolerance, Awareness & Remembering Survivors and the Program of Jewish Studies. More at kzthefilm.com
2006, color, 1 hour 37 minutes, UK