The End of the Neubacher Project ( Das Ende des Neubacher Projekts (To telos tou shediou Neubacher) )

The End of the Neubacher Project (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Das Ende des Neubacher Projekts (To telos tou shediou Neubacher)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
74 min + 1 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Marcus J. Carney

Written By:
Marcus J. Carney

Actors:
Marcus J. Carney

Synopsis:

The End of the Neubacher Project documents the disturbing history of Carney's own family. It is the story of a typical Austrian family that still struggles with its Nazi past. At the beginning of the documentary, the young director characterizes this behavioral pattern as an Austrian disease - morbus Austriacus. For Marcus Carney, it is a "problematic, extremely disjointed approach to reality" in a country where authoritarian obedience and wholesale denial of historic guilt still go hand in hand.

THE END OF THE NEUBACHER PROJECT tells the story of filmmaker Marcus J. Carney and his mother's family. At the outset all characters portrayed seem like mostly healthy, regularly neurotic members of an average family. The filmmaker tries to come to terms with the family's Nazi past, but step by step he encounters greater entanglements and deeper levels of denial. The main relationship in the film develops between the filmmaker and his mother, who is diagnosed with cancer during principal photography. With its stunning use of family archive stills and 8mm footage, the film may rightly be called an epic home movie. By adding to this private archive material the ample public material about Carney's forebears in the Viennese city archives, he shows us a shifting world in which the boundaries between private and public dissolve. This quality in the film is truly epic. Deftly handling the montage of a great deal of gut-wrenching imagery, Carney explores the trauma of his own typical Austrian family, a family defined as much by its atavistic love of hunting as it is by its feeling of guilt for the whole nation's involvement in National Socialism. The broken centre of this family is to be found in its incapacity to mourn. This incapacity to mourn is so pervasive that it kills.

In the course of an eight year quest into the disturbing legacy of his Nazi family, film-maker Marcus J. Carney loses both his grandmother and mother to cancer but gains deep insight into how to break the cycle of unresolved mourning.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 May, 2013.