TACHELES - The Heart of the Matter
Theatrical release October 14, 2021
Synopsis
Yaar is a young Jewish Berliner who dreams of being a game designer someday. He associates nothing with Judaism but lambs being led to the slaughter house. He accuses his father of suffering from the Holocaust despite never even having experienced it firsthand. Yaar rebels by developing a computer game: "Shoah. When God was asleep". He creates a virtual Germany of the 1940s where Jews can defend themselves and Nazis don't necessarily have to be bad guys. Then, his own family's history turns his plans upside down.TACHELES - The Heart of the Matter - shows how the traumas of the survivors can even make their ways into the third generation's lives. The film asks the burning question from the perspective of a 21-old: What does Holocaust have to do with me today?
Festivals/Awards
2020CLIO 2020 Nomination – Moving History Festival Award
DOK.fest Munich
Kassel Dokfest
2021
Human Rights Watch Film Festival New York
Nomination German Documentary Award 2021
Achtung Berlin Filmfestival
2023
nominated for 59 Grimme Prize
Cast and Crew
- Director Jana Matthes, Andrea Schramm
- Producer Andrea Schramm, Jana Matthes
- Director of Photography Lars Barthel, Andrej Johannes Thieme
- Editor Julia Wiedwald
- Sound Timo Selengia, Nic Nagel, Yishai Ilan
- Score The Notwist, Bernd Jestram
Original Languages
Hebrew
German
Production Company
HANFGARN & UFER Filmproduktion GbRApostel-Paulus-Str. 6a, 10823 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 84855000
Fax: +49 30 84855015
info@hu-film.dehttp://www.hu-film.de
Links / Reference
SCHRAMM MATTHES FILM
Soldiner St. 92
13359 Berlin, Germany
www.schramm-matthes-film.de
WORLD SALES
Ruth Films World Sales & Distribution
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Hamoshava Hagermanit
Jerusalem, 9311401, Israel
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office@ruthfilms.com
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DISTRIBUTION Germany
RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih e.K.
www.realfictionfilme.de
TRAILER
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