House Of Atonement ( Sühnhaus )

House Of Atonement (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Sühnhaus
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Teaser(s)
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2016 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Maya McKechneay

Written By:
Maya McKechneay

Synopsis:

»House Of Atonement« is the story of an unlucky address: Schottenring 7 in Vienna. The Ring Theatre used to stand here. When it burned down, 400 people died. This is where the Austro-Hungarian Emperor decreed that a House of Atonement should be constructed, to make up for everything. And nobody wanted to live in it. At this address a young neurologist opened his surgery. But he soon moved out, when one of his patients threw herself down the stairwell to her death. His name: Sigmund Freud. This is where the Gestapo set fire to files, destroying the Emperor's legacy, which was supposed to be fireproof. This is where the fears of the Cold War were preserved in concrete: Vienna's secret Command Centre, 18 metres below ground, untouched to this very day. The essay film »House Of Atonement« takes a close look at this address, when misfortune has been repeated as if by some uncanny pattern over the centuries. Does some mysterious aura surround this place? A haunted house - in the middle of Vienna?

House Of Atonement tells the story of a an ill-fated address: Vienna, Schottenring 7. This was the site of the Ringtheater, where nearly four hundred people died in a fire in 1881. The essay film takes an associative look at monarchy, First and Second Republic and connects images, events and thoughts that do not seem to have much in common, at first glance. As a ghost house movie without ghosts it uses a piece of property's history as an occasion to look for real skeletons in Austria's cupboard.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 11 April, 2018.