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Der dritte Bruder

Deutschland 2022-2024 Dokumentarfilm

The Third Brother

Wondering about her father’s lack of sense of family, the filmmaker searches for her father’s mother, who disappeared in the Holocaust. In the process, she discovers a family story from the Third Reich to divided Germany, in which three brothers were torn apart by political ideologies: Walther emi­grated in time, Hermann made a career under the Nazis and even defended a war criminal in Nuremberg, whereas Otto, "the third brother" and the grandfather of the filmmaker, stayed in Dresden, suffering under the Nazis and later under the Communist regime. Why did he tell his sons their mother had died in a sanatorium? And how could he have denounced people himself in the GDR, after his Jewish wife had been denounced by neighbors for having visited a movie theater? In confronting her father, the filmmaker tries to overcome decades of silence and, in the process, to understand at what point in the past her father’s sense of family fell by the wayside.

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH

Credits

Director

  • Kathrin Jahrreiß

Screenplay

  • Kathrin Jahrreiß (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Marcus Winterbauer

Editing

  • Nicole Schmeier
  • Nicole Winterbauer

Music

  • Julia Klomfass

Production company

  • Ester.Reglin.Film Produktionsgesellschaft mbH (Köln)

Producer

  • Roswitha Ester
  • Torsten Reglin

Alle Credits

Director

  • Kathrin Jahrreiß

Screenplay

  • Kathrin Jahrreiß (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Marcus Winterbauer

Colour grading

  • Joshua Seckerdieck

Editing

  • Nicole Schmeier
  • Nicole Winterbauer

Sound design

  • Jasmin Lenssen
  • Alexander Topalis

Sound

  • Oliver Stahn

Audio mixing

  • Jasmin Lenssen
  • Alexander Topalis

Music

  • Julia Klomfass

Production company

  • Ester.Reglin.Film Produktionsgesellschaft mbH (Köln)

Producer

  • Roswitha Ester
  • Torsten Reglin

Original distributor

  • Real Fiction Filmverleih (Köln)

Funding

  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (Berlin)
Duration:
116 min
Format:
DCP
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 09.12.2024, 264254, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Aufführung (DE): 20.10.2024, Köln, Film Festival Cologne, Filmpalast;
Kinostart (DE): 01.05.2025

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Der dritte Bruder

Versions

Original

Duration:
116 min
Format:
DCP
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 09.12.2024, 264254, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Aufführung (DE): 20.10.2024, Köln, Film Festival Cologne, Filmpalast;
Kinostart (DE): 01.05.2025

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