Searching for Fritz Kann

A film about 3 generations of silence and remembering today. In his film, Marcel Kolvenbach follows in the footsteps of his grandmother's first husband: the German Jew Fritz Kann. He was deported in 1942 - exactly 9 months before the birth of the filmmaker's father - and murdered by the Nazis in Izbica. Is Marcel Kolvenbach Fritz Kann's grandson or does he owe his existence to the fact that Fritz Kann was deported and murdered? The search for the deportees leads from a former slaughterhouse in Düsseldorf to a journey via Poland to Argentina and back to East Berlin. The choreography by the Israeli dancer Reuth Shemesh creates an imaginary space that reinterprets the gaps in the family history. "Searching for Fritz Kann" is a production by publicnomad productions, funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and the BGAG Stiftung, the DGB NRW and the Düsseldorf Place of Remembrance.

(RealFiction Filmdistribution)