THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOSEF MENGELE
135 Min (GER, FR, UK) 2025 – 5.1
Shortly after the end of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who had practiced in the Auschwitz extermination camp, managed to escape from Germany. With the help of SS soldiers and the support of wealthy South American families, he went into hiding in Argentina. From Buenos Aires to Paraguay, with stops in the Brazilian jungle, the so-called Angel of Death organized his methodical disappearance and escaped any form of trial.
Production Sound Mix
Festival de Cannes
Viennale IFF
Fünf Seen FF
Filmkunstmesse Leipzig
Festival des Deutschen Films Ludwigshafen
Director & Screenplay
Kirill Serebrennikov
Director of Photography
Vladislav Opelyants
Editor
Hansjörg Weißbrich
Production Sound Mixer
David Almeida-Ribeiro, Simon Peter
Producer
Axell Hurier, Melanie Dieter
Production Company
Lupa Fiulm, CG Cinéma, Hype Studios Ltd, Arte France Cinéma, Scala Films, Forma Pro Films, Gold Rush Pictures, Piano Producciones
Protagonist, Actress & Actors
August Diehl, David Ruland, Dana Herfurth, Johannes Hegemann
LORD OF THE TOYS
90 Min (GER) 2018 – 5.1
Max “Adlersson” Herzberg from Dresden, 20 years old, has decided not to spend his life working. Since then, he has been talking about knives and all kinds of other products, opening gangsta rap fan boxes, talking about himself, getting drunk in public, ranting and raving, humiliating weaker people, cracking crude jokes and testing every boundary he sees – Max is a YouTuber and makes a living from it.
Most of his friends have their own channels on YouTube and Instagram, some of them quite successful. Max and his gang are dubious role models, but certainly celebrities of their generation with more than 300,000 active fans. Is Max a violence-glorifying influencer with right-wing tendencies or an ordinary adolescent in search of stability and identity at a time when the boundaries between private and public life are increasingly disappearing? Perhaps he is both, probably without being too aware of it.
LORD OF THE TOYS accompanies Max and his clique for a summer and leaves behind a dystopian image of the first generation of young adults who don’t know life without the internet, YouTube and Instagram. The film portrays them and examines the world in which their life models thrive: the West in general and East Germany in particular.
Sounddesign & Mixing
Dok Leipzig Gewinner der goldenen Taube im deutschen Wettbewerb
Prädikat besonders wertvoll
Hot Docs Toronto
Watchdog FF
FF Cottbus
Rand FF
Buch & Montage Pablo Ben Yakov, André Krummel
Künstlerische Mitarbeit Roland Scheliga
Bildgestaltung André Krummel
Originalton Pablo Ben Yakov, Marc Eberhardt
Musik Kat Kaufmann
Zusätzliche Musik I am Mono & Auditivium
Sprecherin Maximiliane Häcke
Artwork & Color Grading Roland Scheliga
Tonmischung & Sound Design Tobias Adam, Simon Peter
Foley Artist Lena Beck
Regie & Produktion Pablo Ben Yakov
Eine Produktion der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg