Movie

Memento (1966)

• February 16, 1966
• 16m

• Documentary

Overview

A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots of gravestones and inscriptions – deported, murdered, perished; in Auschwitz or Theresienstadt. Commentary reminds us of the victims – "in 1933, 160,564 Jewish citizens lived in Berlin; in 1945, 3,500".

Director

Karlheinz Mund

Writers

Karlheinz Mund, Günter Kunert, Bodo Schulenberg

Starring

Hilmar Thate, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff