An excellent movie. Most striking is the contrast between Myriam who visits the camp fifty years later and is overcome by her terrible memories, particularly of her friends who did not survive, even blaming herself for the death of some of them, and Oskar who is the grandson of an SS-man and who visits the camp and takes photos and thinks that he is doing something to amend his grandfathers evil-doings, but in reality is an example for insensitivity - not realizing what Myriam is going through, he uses her to overcome his own confused feelings instead of respecting and supporting her and putting her in the first place.
The horrors of the camp are not shown, but told. Myriam tells about what she has gone through. Instead the movie shows what she is going through when she visits the camp some decades later, and this is even more disturbing than the well-known horrors of the concentration camp. For those who survived, never really left the camps.
The horrors of the camp are not shown, but told. Myriam tells about what she has gone through. Instead the movie shows what she is going through when she visits the camp some decades later, and this is even more disturbing than the well-known horrors of the concentration camp. For those who survived, never really left the camps.