Tënk's opinion

“It’s sad enough, the things that took place here”… Some of Ebensee’s inhabitants live on the very site of a minor concentration camp devoted to digging a tunnel. The gate survives in the middle of the neighbourhood, but no-one wants to go and see the monument – it’s old news. But it weighs heavily on the disaffected youth filmed in close-up in this movie. They’re not more disaffected than other young people, but differently, undermined by the community’s denial. This is a strange film about the troubles these teenagers suffer, attached to a place where so many people were killed. “You don’t count time when you’re free” wrote the woman of letters and deportation survivor Charlotte Delbo.  

Pierre Oscar Lévy
Director