Overview

• Director Marcin Wierzchowski follows relatives and survivors over four years, deliberately keeping the focus off the perpetrator.
• The release revives unresolved questions from the night of 19 February 2020, including a Forensic Architecture reconstruction alleging a locked emergency exit.
• Families recount failed emergency calls and note that a special police unit later dissolved over extremist chats was deployed that night.
• The documentary captures frustrations over bureaucratic indifference and a dispute about placing a memorial in Hanau’s central square.
• The feature premiered at the Berlinale in February and reaches German theaters on 4 September.