Festival 2009Power of Suspecting

THE POWER OF SUSPECTING - EGINALD SCHLATTNER AND THE SECURITATE-TRAUMA EGINALD SCHLATTNER ŞI TRAUMA SECURITĂŢII
Documentary Specification	Biography / Biografie
trailer available / official website THE POWER OF SUSPECTING - EGINALD SCHLATTNER AND THE SECURITATE-TRAUMA EGINALD SCHLATTNER ŞI TRAUMA SECURITĂŢII VON DER MACHT DES VERDÄCHTIGENS - EGINALD SCHLATTNER UND DAS SECURITATE-TRAUMA Walter Wehmeyer Austria 2008 90 min. Director / Editor: Walter Wehmeyer Photography: Tudor Mircea Production Company: Walter Wehmeyer / Walter Wehmeyer Filmproduktion World Distribution & Sales: Walter Wehmeyer / Walter Wehmeyer Filmproduktion Address: Walter Wehmeyer / Walter Wehmeyer Filmproduktion, Stolberggasse 19/15, 1050 Vienna, Austria Tel./ Fax: 0043019543952 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it	WALTER WEHMEYER Acting studies. Film and Television studies. Since 1989 tutor for film-workshops at several schools for film and photography in Munich and Vienna. Studii de actorie. Studii de film şi televiziune. Din 1989 asistent universitar în cadrul mai multor şcoli de film şi fotografie din München şi Viena.
	Filmography / Filmografie
	2007 - Sunken Faces - The Novels of the Transylvanian Prison Chaplain, Eginald Schlattner 2006 - Care for Outsiders - Life at C.A.R.E. in Geneva 2005 - Middle East - Trauma and Hopes of the Young 2004 - Magie der Klarheit 2003 - Singing as a Path 2002 - Eyes who listen 2001 - Destiny and Resurrection 2000 - La vocation de l’écoute - Musique et spiritualité sur l’île d’Orta 1998 - Krisenherd Kosovo - Zwischen Angst und Rebellion 1996 - Journalist´s Diary - Rwanda 1994 - Kosovo Kosova - Precursors of a war 1992 - Space to flee 1991 - Beyond Giesing
	Awards / Premii
	Award at Documentary Film Festival Munich and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

Synopsis / Sinopsis

German writer and minister, Eginald Schlattner witnessed the horrors of communism. Arrested and tortured by the Stasi in the 50s, he decided after months of interrogations to reveal information on writers who were against the regime. The documentary follows the history of those years, with focus on the Saxons from Transylvania, as told by Schlattner in his controversial novel “The Red Gloves.” His story is completed by confessions of other political prisoners, statements of torturers and documents. Now a minister for German prisoners and Protestants in Romanian prisons, as well as for women in Aiud, Schlattner listens to terrible confessions and blesses a woman who killed her husband. A valuable film document, which can have the motto: “Guilt cannot be measured”, on pain and loss, faith and betrayal – a contribution to the landscape of an incomplete history.

Scriitor şi preot de naţionalitate germană, Eginald Schlattner a cunoscut ororile comunismului. Arestat şi torturat de Securitate în anii ‘50, a decis după luni de interogatorii să dezvăluie informaţii despre scriitori ostili regimului. Documentarul urmăreşte istoria acelor ani, cu precădere în privinţa saşilor din Transilvania, istorie surprinsă de Schlattner în controversatul roman „Mănuşile roşii”. Filmul aduce în paralel cu mărturisirile lui şi opiniile altor prizonieri politici, declaraţiile unor torţionari şi documente. Acum preot pentru deţinuţii de limbă germană şi protestanţi din închisorile din România, precum şi pentru femeile de la Aiud, Schlattner ascultă confesiuni teribile şi binecuvântează o femeie care şi-a omorât bărbatul. Un valoros film-document, al cărui motto ar putea fi cuvintele protagonistului principal: „Vina este greu de cuantificat”. Despre durere şi rătăcire, credinţă şi trădare - o contribuţie la peisajul unei istorii încă incomplet dezvăluite.

ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009

Programming / Programare
Wednesday 28 - Hall B - 21h00 / Miercuri 28 - Sala B - 21h00

Films in Made in Romania Special Program
Filme in Programul Special Made in Romania
ABOUT IULIAN MIHU, AS HE WAS - ABOUT US, THE WAY WE ARE, Laurenţiu Damian, Romania
ADELA & AGNETHA, Geo Scripcariu, Romania
AUSTRALIA , Claudiu Mitcu, Romania
CARMEN MEETS BORAT , Mercedes Stalenhoef, Olanda
COPSA MICA, DUDU'S DARK TOWN , Remco Van Der Kruk & Wilco Leene, The Netherlands
A FANCY HOUSE , Martin Nudow & Thomas Beckmann, Germany
FAUST-THE PATH OF THE MOMENT , Laurenţiu Damian, Romania
HUMORESCA , Diana Deleanu, Romania
IN JANUARY, PERHAPS , Diogo Costa Amarante, Portugalia
THE LAST MISSION , Adelin Petrişor, Romania
THE POWER OF SUSPECTING - EGINALD SCHLATTNER AND THE SECURITATE-TRAUMA , Walter Wehmeyer, Austria
ROMANIAN VOICES - SICILY - ROMANIA ROUND TRIP , Enrico Montalbano, Ilaria Sposito, Angela Giardina, Italy
WEDDINGS, MUSIC AND VIDEO TAPES , Tudor Giurgiu, Romania

FESTIVAL PROGRAM

film screenings

AFF09 Film Program (.pdf)

Mo.26 | Tu.27 | We.28 | Th.29

Fr.30 | Sa.31 | Su.01

events

Mo.26 - Su.01

FILM ARCHIVE

ASTRA FILM manages an extensive documentary film collection with public screening facilities. The ASTRA FILM archive started in 1990, and it has collected since thousands of documentaries produced in over 70 countries.

Due to our focus on the Eastern European and Romanian production, the ASTRA FILM archive holds a unique collection of documentaries documenting the issues of post-communism and transition in the region.