Director
Kai Wessel
Starring
Sebastian Koch, Friti Haberlandt, Henriette Confurius, David Bennent, Karl Markovics
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Certificate
15
Run Time
126 mins
Release Year
2016
Country of Origin
Germany
Language
German
Director of Photography: Hagen Bogdanski
Editor: Caroline Von Senden
Produced by: Ulrich Limmer, Danny Krausz, Kalle Friz, Franz Kraus, Sepp Reidinger, Antonio Exacoustos, Ernst Eberlein
Music: Martin Todsharow
Screenplay by: Holger Karsten Schmidt
Production Designer: Christoph Kanter
Sound Production: Heinz K Ebner
Fog in August (Nebel im August)
Part of the European Perspectives Strand
Kai Wessel’s powerful and absorbing film is hailed as the first drama to tackle the dark wartime subject of the Nazis’ euthanasia programme. Based on Robert Domes’ 2008 novel, the film follows 13-year-old Ernst (Ivo Pietzcker), who is committed to a mental hospital in 1942 because of his Yenish traveller lineage. Unexpectedly he finds friendship there, but when he learns more about the truth of what lies behind the hospital’s facade he sets out to try and sabotage the euthanasia programme with help from his new friends.