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Director
Sandra Löhr
Producer
Markus Glaser
Production company
Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
Director of photography
Dietmar Ratsch
Editor
Emily Artmann ...
IDF Events
2008 East Silver

Figuring Out Father

Die Vatersucherin, Austria, 2008, 40 min, Digi Beta, Personal View, Portrait

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The documentary film shows Sophie Templer-Kuh, a Jewish woman born 1916, on a search for her Austrian father, anarchist and psycho-analyst Otto Gross. This takes her to the early years of the modern age, to Vienna of the 1910s and 20s.
Her search for her lost story, and that of her family, is an emigrant's look at Europe, the look of a woman who gradually realizes how much her father influenced the contemporary values of a liberal, self-determined and individualistic society.

Director:

Sandra Löhr

Producer:

Markus Glaser

Director of photography:

Dietmar Ratsch

Screenplay:

Sandra Löhr

Editor:

Emily Artmann, Yvonne Loquens

Sound:

Sandra Löhr