And Along Come Tourists Germany
2007, 85min.
Prod.: Britta Knöller, Hans-Christian Schmid, Script: Robert Thalheim, Bernd Lange, Hans-Christian Schmid, Dir.: Robert Thalheim, Dir. of Phot.: Yoliswa Gärtig, Compos.: Uwe Bossenz, Prod. Design: Michal Galinski, Rita Hallekamp, Sound: Uwe Bossenz,, Anton Feist, Edit.: Stefan Kobe
Cast: Alexander Fehling, Ryszard Ronczewski, Barbara Wysocka, Piotr Rogucki, Rainer Sellien, Lena Stolze, Lutz Blochberger, Willy Rachow, Roman Gancarczyk, Adam Nawojczyk, Halina Kwiatkowska, Joachim Lätsch
For Sven, a young German, Auschwitz is a small town in Poland, a strange language, a concentration camp, all the musty grayness of high school German history classes. Krzemiński, a former inmate who never left the camp and now spends his time either giving contemporary-witness lectures or repairing suitcases. Krzemiński’s world revolves around the suitcases taken from the Jews as they arrived at the concentration camp from all over Europe. Having to endure Krzemiński’s haughty, gruff manner, Sven also has to put up with the barely concealed contempt of various locals. Luckily, there’s Ania, a young guide who lets Sven stay at her place… As the weeks go by, Sven begins to discover both Auschwitz and Oświęcim, the place of horror and the Polish town, the memorial to inhumanity and the tourist industry that has sprung up around it.
Production Companies
23/5 Filmproduktion GmbH
Das Kleinfernsehspiel
| Thalheim, Robert Robert Thalheim (born 1974, Berlin, Germany)
From 1997 to 1998, Thalheim worked as an assistant director at Berliner Ensemble. From 1998 on, he studied at FU Berlin but enrolled at Filmhochschule Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg in 2000 to study directing. Furthermore, Thalheim wrote a book about Andrzej Wajda (published in 2000) and is the editor of the cultural affairs magazine Plotki. In 2003, Thalheim directed his play Wild Boys at Berlin’s Maxim Gorki theater. In 2005, Thalheim made his feature film debut as a director with Netto, a film about a father-son relationship that was shown at various festivals and won several awards, including the Förderpreis Langfilm at the 2005 film festival Max Ophuels Preis in Saarbrucken. Thalheim’s second film And Along Come Tourists premiered at the 2007 Cannes FF.
Filmography
Three Perfect (2001), Die Grenze – Granica (2001), Netto (2005), And Along Come Tourists (Am Ende kommen Touristen, 2007)
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