“Waldheim no!”: This was the cry that united the crowd that gathered in the center of Vienna in 1986, to protest about the election of Kurt Waldheim as President of Austria. Director Ruth Beckermann was found among this crowd; after all these years, she decided to go through private and public archives, in order to deliver the portrait of the former UN Secretary-General with the dark Nazi past, and analyse the features of anti-Semitic propaganda in a chilling documentation of an era that is not-so-long gone.
The Waldheim Waltz
Waldheims Walzer
20th TDF: Greek premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Ruth Beckermann
- Script: Ruth Beckermann
- Editing: Dieter Pichler
- Sound: Manuel Grandpierre, Rudi Pototschnig
- Production: Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion
- Producers: Ruth Beckermann
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color/B&W
- Production Country: Austria
- Production Year: 2017
- Duration: 93'
- Contact: Austrian Film Commission, festivals@afc.at
- Awards/Distinctions: Berlinale Glashütte Original / Documentary Prize – Berlin IFF 2018
Ruth Beckermann
Filmography
1983 Return to Vienna
1987 Paper Bridge
1996 East of War
1999 A Fleeting Passage to the Orient
2006 Zorros Bar Mizwa
2011 American Passages
2016 The Dreamed Ones
2022 MUTZENBACHER
