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How do you make a documentary about Holocaust tourism? About the hordes of bored-looking day-trippers who flood the former German concentration camps, now set up as memorials? Ukraine-raised filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa has done it. Austerlitz is the name of the film, which had its Dutch premiere at IDFA and is as contrary as it is baffling.
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Loznitsa, one of the former Eastern Bloc's leading documentary filmmakers, was allowed to present his top...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

How do you make a documentary about Holocaust tourism? About the hordes of bored-looking day-trippers who flood the former German concentration camps, now set up as memorials? Ukraine-raised filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa has done it. Austerlitz is the name of the film, which had its Dutch premiere at IDFA and is as contrary as it is baffling.
Masterclass
Loznitsa, one of the former Eastern Bloc's leading documentary filmmakers, was allowed to present his top...

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