Winter Journey

  • Archive - Festival 36
  • Director: Anders Ostergaard
  • Denmark 2019
  • 90 minutes
  • English, German
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

American radio host Martin Goldsmith never knew what really had happened to his parents Georg and Rosemarie before their escape from Germany in 1941. As he confronts his father over a long weekend, we are brought back to the 1930s, when his parents were talented musicians. After the Nuremberg Laws were enacted in 1935 they were only able to perform as members of the Jewish Cultural Federation, a bizarre propaganda organization fully controlled by Joseph Goebbels and the Reich Chamber of Culture.

Winter Journey uses remarkable and ingenuously edited archive material and reenactments of the conversations Martin Goldsmith had with his father. Goldsmith himself is the unseen interviewer and a vulnerable Bruno Ganz plays his father in his final role.

Filmography: 1989 (2014), Burma VJ (2008), Tintin and Me (2004), The Magus (1999).

 

Video talk with the creators


  • Director Anders Ostergaard
  • Production Mette Heide, Thomas Kufus, Tassilo Aschauer
  • Script Anders Ostergaard, Martin Goldsmith
  • Cinematography Henner Besuch
  • Editing Anders Villadsen
  • Festivals IDFA, CPH:DOX
  • Participants Bruno Ganz, Martin Goldsmith, Leonard Scheicher, Harvey Friedman
  • Source Menemsha Films, Santa Monica