Hotel Ausschwitz

A bitter, dark comedy about career aspirations, desire, dependence, and personal politics (or lack thereof). HOTEL AUSCHWITZ rips into a theater group that fails in the specter of what was once the world's largest extermination camp. "A brutal film...a very black tragicomedy where laughter gets caught in your throat." (RADIO 1) Martin, a career-obsessed theater director, stages "Die Ermittlung" by Peter Weiss. Together with his actors and assistant director he goes on a research trip to Auschwitz. When the Polish Jewish trash icon Goska enters the scene, the situation escalates.

Keywords

  • déjà-vu FILM
  • Holocaust
  • Made in Germany
  • achtung berlin – new berlin film award
  • Black Comedy
  • politics
  • theater

Actors

  • Franziska Petri
  • Cornelius Schwalm
  • Patrick von Blume
  • Katharina Bellena
  • Oli Bigalke

Director

  • Cornelius Schwalm

Independent, Comedy


1h 15min


16+

DE

Germany
2018
A disavowed theatre group undertakes a research trip to what was once the largest extermination camp in the world and become their own downfall.

A disavowed theatre group undertakes a research trip to what was once the largest extermination camp in the world and become their own downfall.


A bitter, dark comedy about career aspirations, desire, dependence, and personal politics (or lack thereof). HOTEL AUSCHWITZ rips into a theater group that fails in the specter of what was once the world's largest extermination camp.


"A brutal film...a very black tragicomedy where laughter gets caught in your throat." (RADIO 1)


Martin, a career-obsessed theater director, stages "Die Ermittlung" by Peter Weiss. Together with his actors and assistant director he goes on a research trip to Auschwitz. When the Polish Jewish trash icon Goska enters the scene, the situation escalates.

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