at the Kreeger Museum
Documentary Screening and Discussion
In the film The Ghosts of the Third Reich, Claudia Ehrlich Sobral and Tommaso Valente look at the way a few descendants of Nazi high officers have tried to come to terms with their family past. As the relationship between former persecutors and victims is central to Mindy Weisel’s works in the Not Neutral exhibition, director Claudia E. Sobral and Ori Z. Soltes, Goldman Professorial Lecturer in Theology and Fine Arts at Georgetown University, will discuss the artistic implications of choosing diverse mediums, such as painting and cinema.
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LOCATION
The Kreeger Museum
2401 Foxhall Road, NW
Washington D.C. 20007
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Italy 2012, color, 52 min
Directed by Tommaso Valente and Claudia Sobral
English and German with English subtitles
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Ghost of the Third Reich
Ghosts of the Third Reich documents the poignant and anguished stories of descendants of the Nazis, who confront their family’s past and communicate their most profound feelings of guilt by inheritance. These individuals, whose family members were supporters, officers, and elite of the Nazi regime, share a common desire to distance themselves from Nazi ideology and the actions of their ancestors; and to liberate themselves from the guilt, shame, and pain that continue to levy a heavy price seventy years later. The confrontation with the inheritance of the Nazi legacy is powerfully evoked further in the inclusion of moments from The Austrian Encounter, a focal point for dialogue between descendants of Nazi perpetrators and survivors of the Holocaust.
Tommaso Valente
Tommaso Valente has been a filmmaker since 1999. He has dedicated a particular attention to film projects focused on history, editing movies such as Non tacere (Do not be silent) by Fabio Grimaldi, 2008, Liberate il Duce! (Rescue Mussolini!) by Fabio Toncelli, 2010, La battaglia di Cassino (The battle of Cassino) by Fabio Toncelli, 2011. As a director he has made both documentaries, as Casilina Express, 2005, and shorts, as I ragazzi che si amano (Children who love), 2008.
Claudia Ehrlich Sobral
Claudia Ehrlich Sobral, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a third generation member of a family of Holocaust survivors. She has worked for five years as a researcher on historical documentaries at SD Cinematografica (Rome, Italy), curated a museum exhibition based on oral histories of Japanese Americans during World War II in Los Angeles, and was the director of a multicultural program designed to create greater understanding and tolerance among diverse ethnic and racial communities in Los Angeles, California.
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