JETZT?
Nathaniel Knop
On the 31st January 2024, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, Eva Szepesi (born 1932) from Frankfurt spoke in the German Bundestag of her childhood and her family’s suffering – as a survivor of the Holocaust and as an honoured guest. She and the other contemporary witnesses in this documentary – Alexandra Stimmer, Dora Zinger, Liesel Binzer, Aviva Goldschmidt, and Abraham Rozen - were children or teenagers during the Holocaust. How can their stories about surviving the Holocaust be preserved? A theatre project by Frankfurt pupils attempts exactly this: to bring something virtually unspeakable to the stage. Important in the course of this: a gentle handling of the deeply traumatic experiences – both for the survivors and for the young actors. According to filmmaker Nathaniel Knop, this project gives a voice to those who have been silent for a very long time: “The memory of the Shoah cannot remain only a memory, it has to be a continuous warning and an active part of our current awareness. The film is an attempt to keep this memory alive – not only by telling the survivors’ stories but also through the encounter between the generations who have to deal with the memories of today and the responsibility for tomorrow”. What is the remembrance culture worth to us in the context of the phrase: “Never again is now”? This documentary is an answer to this urgent question.
22 April 2025
19:00 h, Naxos Kino
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Direction | Nathaniel Knop |
Country | Deutschland |
Year | 2025 |
Duration | 78 min |
Language | Deutsch |
Language version | OmeU |
Cast | Eva Szepesi, Alexandra Stimmer, Aviva Goldschmidt, Liesel Binzer, Abraham Rozen, Dora Zinger |
Camera | Anatoli Skatchkov, Reece Michael York |
Script | Nathaniel Knop |
Editing | Nathaniel Knop |
Sound | Tamás Bohács |
Music | Elischa Kaminer |
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The director about the movie
Filmmaker Nathaniel Knop: „This film is more than just a project – it is a personal exploration of a subject that affects me deeply. As the grandchild of Shoah survivors, raised by my grandparents who never spoke much about their own experiences, I am conscious of the importance of remembering. There was always a barrier that made it difficult for them to share the unimaginable. And I often wondered why that is – why it is so difficult to speak about what happened."
About the director
Anatoli Skatchkov (alias Nathaniel Knop) film director, producer. Born in 1968 into a Jewish-Chinese family in Czernowitz, Ukraine. Studied psychiatry. Postgraduate studies as a film director. Assistant director to A. Kaidanovsky and K. Zanussi. Came to Berlin in 1997 as a Nipkow scholarship holder (The NIPKOW PROGRAM - European scholarship for professionals in the audiovisual media). He has worked for the television stations 3SAT and ARTE as well as for museums. He lives with his wife and 5 children in Frankfurt am Main.
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