Overview

• The feature-length documentary entered general release in Germany on September 4 after its world premiere at the Berlinale and subsequent festival awards.
• Director Marcin Wierzchowski spent roughly four years with survivors and victims’ families, keeping the focus on their experiences rather than the attacker.
• Accounts in the film highlight alleged official failures, including a locked emergency exit identified by Forensic Architecture, emergency calls that did not get through, and the presence of a later-disbanded Hesse SEK unit.
• The documentary records the continuing struggle for recognition, including a dispute over placing a public memorial at Hanau’s central marketplace marked by the Grimm monument inscription “Das Deutsche Volk.”
• Shot in stark black and white and running about 132–138 minutes, the film is rolling out in cities across Hesse following a local preview in Hanau.