… They Only Take Away the Criminals
… They Only Take Away the Criminals
International Forum
Open Eyes
COUNTRY: Germany YEAR: 2019 RUNTIME: 7 min
DIRECTED BY: Hamze Bytyci
LANGUAGE(S): German
SUBTITLES: English
SCRIPT Kristóf Horváth
PRODUCED BY: Caspar Schleicher, Veronika Patočková
3D-ANIMATION: Norbert Oláh
ILLUSTRATION & ANIMATION: Hannah Stragholz, Simon Steinhorst
SCOR: Dragan Cordes
SCREENINGS
SYNOPSIS
“They only take away the criminals,” Zilli Reichmann’s father said when the National Socialists arrested the first Sinti and Roma. Because he was fatally wrong, the 95-year-old Sintizza tells her story today. In the animated short film she tells of the murder of her daughter and family in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, her struggle for survival and the meaning of life after the Holocaust.
Hamze Bytyci
Hamze Bytyçi is a curator, media and theatre educator, director and performer, as well as the chairman of RomaTrial e.V.. In 2017, he founded the International Roma Film Festival AKE DIKHEA?, which has since taken place annually in Berlin under his direction. His short documentary JOŽKA was screened at NIHRFF in 2017. in 2021 Hamze Bytyci was a member of our International Festival Jury.
Jožka (2017), Memory Boxes (2019), …die bringen nur die Verbrecher weg (2019), Branko (2022), Menschen können zweimal sterben (2022), Familie Ujvari (2022), Noncia (2022), Haus ohne Räder (2022), Listen (2022), I Sang Again (2022)
PRODUCTION: Roma Trial e.V. (post@romatrial.org)