We are celebrating our Premiere in Filmrauschpalast, Moabit
📅 Date: 6.10.2023
🕗 Time: 19:30
📍 Place: Filmrauschpalast, Moabit
📽 Film: 60 Minutes, English with German Subtitles
There is a discussion after the film with the director and two of the protagonists, hosted by the Moses-Mendelssohn-Zentrum and Christoph Kopke.
This event is made possible through the support of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation.
You want to come?
Please note - all seats are booked and we are full for this event!
For further questions please send us an email to mail@rocinantefilm.com.
Looking forward to see you there!
Hard to imagine a film that could be more topical and urgent.
— Stuttgarter Zeitung
A work so strong and so well crafted that the honor could not be denied.
— Queens World Film Festival
The depiction of the media's role in the rise of fascism and one man's lone fight for truth make this documentary a timeless piece.
— Biberacher Filmfestspiele
In the face of the extremes of Nazism, we are usually concerned with the perpetrators and the victims, less with the roots of the violence and how it changed society. And we tend to forget the voices of those who tried to prevent the violence.
E. J. Gumbel was one of the best known and most hated enemies of the Nazis in his time. His notoriety was such that his name itself became a dirty word. The Nazis hated Gumbel because he uncompromisingly showed how the first German democracy sacrificed its ideals and the means by which the fascists came to power.
Our present reminds me of this period of German history. Gumbel, too, grew up in a time marked by a sense of security and progress, especially in contrast to all that was to follow - wars, annihilation, loss of freedom, the age of fascism. Gumbel was an optimist and a democrat in the half of the century that went down in history as a downfall of civilization. A pacifist in an era of extreme violence. A Cassandra figure whose grim warnings went unheard. And thus a reminder for each of us to protect our society and its values in the face of the extremes we are dealing with today.
We are celebrating our Premiere in Filmrauschpalast, Moabit
📅 Date: 6.10.2023
🕗 Time: 19:30
📍 Place: Filmrauschpalast, Moabit
📽 Film: 60 Minutes, English with German Subtitles
There is a discussion after the film with the director and two of the protagonists, hosted by the Moses-Mendelssohn-Zentrum and Christoph Kopke.
This event is made possible through the support of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation.
You want to come?
Please note - all seats are booked and we are full for this event!
For further questions please send us an email to mail@rocinantefilm.com.
Looking forward to see you there!
Hard to imagine a film that could be more topical and urgent.
— Stuttgarter Zeitung
A work so strong and so well crafted that the honor could not be denied.
— Queens World Film Festival
The depiction of the media's role in the rise of fascism and one man's lone fight for truth make this documentary a timeless piece.
— Biberacher Filmfestspiele
In the face of the extremes of Nazism, we are usually concerned with the perpetrators and the victims, less with the roots of the violence and how it changed society. And we tend to forget the voices of those who tried to prevent the violence.
E. J. Gumbel was one of the best known and most hated enemies of the Nazis in his time. His notoriety was such that his name itself became a dirty word. The Nazis hated Gumbel because he uncompromisingly showed how the first German democracy sacrificed its ideals and the means by which the fascists came to power.
Our present reminds me of this period of German history. Gumbel, too, grew up in a time marked by a sense of security and progress, especially in contrast to all that was to follow - wars, annihilation, loss of freedom, the age of fascism. Gumbel was an optimist and a democrat in the half of the century that went down in history as a downfall of civilization. A pacifist in an era of extreme violence. A Cassandra figure whose grim warnings went unheard. And thus a reminder for each of us to protect our society and its values in the face of the extremes we are dealing with today.