Films by Andreas Christoph Schmidt

Germany 2020, 58 min
by Andreas Christoph Schmidt

A rural Jewish family in Germany is torn apart, forced into hard labour, deported and murdered. We trace the steps of their destruction, from mere harassment to an incomprehensible end in Auschwitz. The film tells the story of a rural Jewish family in Germany that was torn apart, its members scattered and forced into hard labour and then, when no longer deemed useful, deported via different routes and finally murdered. Glambeck, the family’s hometown, is a quaint village north of Berlin with a s

Germany 2016, 90 min
by Artem Demenok, Andreas Christoph Schmidt

Two parts in 45 min.THE FORGOTTEN CRIME: Hidden behind the crimes of World War 2, especially behind the Holocaust, there is another actrocity, nobody talks about and which threatens to disappear from our memory: The killing of more than 3.000.000 Soviet soldiers in German prison camps. Memories of the last survivors and pictures and short films shot by the perpetrators themselves document the tragedy. THE SOVIET HERITAGE talks about the war from a Russian perspective: the omnipresence of the 'Gr