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Totschweigen (A Wall of Silence). 1994. Austria/Germany/Netherlands. Written and directed by Margareta Heinrich, Eduard Erne. Courtesy Arsenal Berlin

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Totschweigen (A Wall of Silence). 1994. Austria/Germany/Netherlands. Written and directed by Margareta Heinrich, Eduard Erne. With Karin Anselm, Kornelia Boje, Peter Kollek. In German, Hebrew, Hungarian; English subtitles. 88 min.

A witness is murdered and a survivor dies during the filmmakers’ search for a mass grave near the Austrian town of Reichnitz, where the Nazis executed a group of Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers in March of 1945, just days before the arrival of the Soviet Red Army.

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