Stefan Rosensprung

"Austria - First Victim of National Socialism" - this is the core theme of the self-image of the country that first welcomed Hitler with waving flags and arms stretched to the sky: Nation, People and Race - Sieg Heil! Monuments, commemorative events and in between the helplessness of dull remembrance. What to do with the lie, where to put the pain, and why again? The war of narratives begins with the liberation of the concentration camps, with the piles of corpses - and it continues to this day. A final journey with those who were there. Which story do we tell ourselves, and which do we want to hear?

The story of a luckless address: Vienna, Schottenring 7. This was the site of Ringtheater were nearly four hundred people died in a fire in 1881. Where the emperor subsequently built the Sühnhaus ('the house of atonement') to make up for it and no-one wanted to live there.

森と畑に囲まれた田舎の一軒家で母親の帰りを待つ9歳の双子の兄弟。ところが、帰ってきた母親は顔の整形手術を受けており、頭部が包帯でぐるぐる巻きになっていた。さらに性格まで別人のように冷たくなってしまい、兄弟は本当に自分たちの母親なのか疑いを抱くように。そして正体を暴くべく彼女を試しはじめるが、その行為は次第にエスカレートしていく。