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It Happened on our Ground
A journey of three generations of women living on one farm that Wendi, the (grand)mother, inherited from her uncle, Hitler’s first foreign minister and senior SS officer. The film is a feminine personal portrait of a German aristocratic family who used their privileged position to save Jews from a concentration camp that was erected on their land. The three women are not afraid to confront the difficult past of their family in an attempt to safeguard a peaceful future.
Festivals and Awards:
Docaviv International Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2024
Director: Avner Faingulernt
Producer: Hagar Saad Shalom, Paul Cadieux, Danae Elon, Jurgen Kleining
Production Company: Skene Border Films - Israel, Filmoption International- Canada, Neue Celluloid Fabric - Germany
Cinematographer: Avner Faingulernt
Editor: Lev Goltser, Avner Faingulernt
Soundtrack Editor: Yuri Primanneko
Original Soundtrack: Jean-Olivier Bégin
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, KAN – Israeli Public Broadcast Corp, Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, MiDarom Film Fund , Mifal HaPayis, Seminar HaKibbuzim College, CoPro
Script: Hagar Saad Shalom, Avner Faingulernt, Danae Elon
Research: Hagar Saad Shalom, Avner Faingulernt
Subtitles: English. Hebrew
Film Name in Hebrew: האחו הקטן
Category: Family / History / Holocaust / Identity
Tag Words: concentration camp Foreign Minister forest Gardening Hitler Holocaust Jewish Prisoners SS Officer WWII
A journey of three generations of women living on one farm that Wendi, the (grand)mother, inherited from her uncle, Hitler’s first foreign minister and senior SS officer. The film is a feminine personal portrait of a German aristocratic family who used their privileged position to save Jews from a concentration camp that was erected on their land. The three women are not afraid to confront the difficult past of their family in an attempt to safeguard a peaceful future.
Festivals and Awards:
Docaviv International Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2024
Director: Avner Faingulernt
Producer: Hagar Saad Shalom, Paul Cadieux, Danae Elon, Jurgen Kleining
Production Company: Skene Border Films - Israel, Filmoption International- Canada, Neue Celluloid Fabric - Germany
Cinematographer: Avner Faingulernt
Editor: Lev Goltser, Avner Faingulernt
Soundtrack Editor: Yuri Primanneko
Original Soundtrack: Jean-Olivier Bégin
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, KAN – Israeli Public Broadcast Corp, Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, MiDarom Film Fund , Mifal HaPayis, Seminar HaKibbuzim College, CoPro
Script: Hagar Saad Shalom, Avner Faingulernt, Danae Elon
Research: Hagar Saad Shalom, Avner Faingulernt
Subtitles: English. Hebrew
Film Name in Hebrew: האחו הקטן
Category: Family / History / Holocaust / Identity
Tag Words: concentration camp Foreign Minister forest Gardening Hitler Holocaust Jewish Prisoners SS Officer WWII