Knittelfeld: A Town Without a History

Knittelfeld: A Town Without a History

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1997 31 min Documentary Age rating: 0
Language: German

To the inconspicuous images of a colorless small town, director Gerhard Benedikt Friedl has a narrator recite an abysmal family tragedy in a relaxed narrative tone. The fact that Knittelfeld, as claimed in the title, is a "town without history" is part of the cinematic understatement with which Friedl handles his real-life grotesque: To the confusing images of a colorless small town, he has a narrator recite an abysmal family tragedy in a serene narrative tone. The documentarian practice of visually authenticating a statement turns out to be a dazzling illusion. (Filmarchiv Austria)

Cast  

Matthias Hirth (Narrator)
Director  

Gerhard Friedl
Editing  

Gerhard Friedl
Staff  

PRODUCTION: HFF München

CO-PRODUCTION: Werner Dütsch/WDR

Production  

GERHARD FRIEDL/HFF München
Country of Production  

Austria

DVD Edition # 98