FADING TRACES - Postscripts from a Landscape of Memory (SPUREN VERSCHWINDEN - Nachträge ins Europäische Gedächtnis)
Switzerland, 1998
Color, 80 Min. 35mm, VHS, English & German Versions
54 Min. TV versions Beta SP E.or G.
A film by Walo Deuber
Written and directed by Walo Deuber
Director of Photography: Guido Noth
Editor: Jürg Messmer
Produced by Rose-Marie Schneider Doc Productions, Zurich
Contact for TV, VHS, Beta, 35mm:
rmsdocprod@access.ch
World Sales Athos Films Int. Berlin (TV)
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Memory is the subject; memories are the material. There is a slice of European history in today's Ukraine, plain for all to see and experience. For years now, the survivors of the Holocaust have kept their memories of a lost Jewish community to themselves. Now they ask the world to share their memories with them. "Fading Traces" brings together the witnesses of the present with those of the past. In a fascinating, spell-binding landscape, an exchange of memories takes place between the witnesses still alive and those who, through their writings and music, long ago fashioned a memorial to the largest ever Jewish cosmos - right there in the heart of Europe.
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"Fading Traces - Postscripts from a Landscape of Memory" premiered 1998 at Nyon Documentary Film Festival and was awarded with the Film Award of the City of Zurich 1998. It was shown at the Jewish Film Festival Melbourne, Molodyst Film Festival Kiev, Documentary Film Festival Munich, in the Yerba Buena Program of the Jewish Film Festival San Francisco and in the Memory and History Program with Yad Vashem at the Cinematheque Jerusalem. The film was invited for special screenings at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York at Columbia University, Shoa Foundation, Los Angeles. It was shown at University of Arizona Tucson and California State University Long Beach and in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Theatrical Release in Switzerland was in 1998/1999/2000/2001.
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"To forget is to prolong exile. Memory is the gateway to Salvation." Baal Schem Tov
"I lived through the terror of Auschwitz and the terror of the siege of Sarajevo. This film is about both memories." An elderly woman in the audience in Sarajevo.
"Hope lives when people remember." Simon Wiesenthal
Walo Deuber, Ph.D. in German Language and Literature is a Swiss filmmaker and journalist and teaches at the present as visiting professor at California State University Long Beach.
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