Austerlitz

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Austerlitz

2016

1h 34m

Documentary

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The juxtaposition of tourists who have come to visit the grounds of former Nazi extermination camps with the grave significance of these historic sites creates a sometimes mordant study of our current culture.

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Everyone is looking, looking, looking. Looking at what? Buildings, walls, yards, enclosures. The victims are not there. The war criminals are not there. The past is not there.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 21, 2016

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Nick James

Sight & Sound

What one collects by the end is a rounded portrait of humanity, and, somehow, one of hope, despite the ghastliness of human crimes and the need to revisit them.

Sep 16, 2016

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Guy Lodge

Variety

The present-day worth of preserved Holocaust death camps is tacitly addressed in Sergei Loznitsa's brilliant observational doc.

Sep 15, 2016

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

Austerlitz‘s people-watching pleasures are complicated but don’t resolve in any one direction.

Jan 12, 2023

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Craig Hubert

Hyperallergic

The film is relatively silent -- there is no added commentary, no titles, no extra sound -- capturing an emotional detachment that is hard to shake, all the more so because of its prevalence.

Feb 5, 2020

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Michael Sicinski

Cinema Scope

Exhibiting a simplicity and intellectual acuity that is far too rare in the field of documentary, Loznitsa has created a film whose cumulative impact will stay with you long after you watch it.

Nov 18, 2017

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Synopsis

The juxtaposition of tourists who have come to visit the grounds of former Nazi extermination camps with the grave significance of these historic sites creates a sometimes mordant study of our current culture.

Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Production Co: Imperativ Film, German Federal Film Board, Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien (BKM)
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: German
Release Date (Streaming): May 21, 2020
Runtime: 1h 34m