Family Love
My Grandpa, Nazism and Me
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An inherited family treasure trove of photos and film footage show the director's grandfather in southern Germany in the 1940s. In one clip, the grandfather is briefly seen at a funfair wearing a swastika on his jacket. How is our perception of a loved one changed through a symbol that stands for murder by the millions? How can photos and film footage, memories and archival material, be pieced together to form a coherent picture? A struggle for memory - and a search whose persistence ultimately ruffles some feathers in the family.
author & director: Eric Esser
co-author: Evelyn Rack
DoP: Julia Geiß, Florian Baumgarten
additional cinematography: Christian Möller
sound: Hannes Richter, Billie Jagodzinska
production manager: Simon Stein
producer: Eric Esser, Simon Stein
development producer: Isabell Wackers
sound design: Ludwig Peter Müller
editing: Evelyn Rack
additional editing: Barbara Ophoff
color grading: Colja Krugmann
title design & retouching: Sandra Dollo, sansculotte
dramaturgical counseling: Katti Jisuk Seo, Sarah Paar, Gruscha Rode
historical consultancy : Gunnar Meyer, Anke Hoffstadt
production supervisor: Uli Kunz, Andreas Schellenberg
mastering: Enrico Matthias
line producer: Andrea Wohlfeil
assistant to the line producer: Nicole Fiedler
mentoring professor: Angelina Maccarone
commissioning editor rbb: Rolf Bergmann
funding: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Veronika Grob
