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German. Fog in August (‹See Tfd› German: Nebel im August) is a 2016 German drama film directed by Kai Wessel. [2] It is based on the 2008 novel Fog in August by Robert Domes, [3] and is inspired by the documented true story of the 14 year old Yenish boy Ernst Lossa (1929–1944). [4] It was listed as one of eight films that could be the ...
Based on the true story of 13-year-old Ernst Lossa (Ivo Pietzcker)Southern Germany, early 1940s . Ernst, a motherless child, is a bright but maladjusted boy....
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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 ...
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A powerful Coming-of-Age drama exposing one of the horrible crimes of the Nazi regime and its inhumanity as told through the eyes of a young boy. https://the...
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The first feature film to address the Nazis’ euthanasia programme. Based on Robert Domes’ 2008 eponymous historical novel, Fog In August centres on the authentic life story of 13-year-old Ernst Lossa who was committed to a mental hospital in Sargau in 1942 because of his origins in a family of travellers.
Evil genius Veithausen delights the SS with a crafty, cheap and sneaky method of execution by 'feeding' condemned patients a soup cooked totally out of nutrients. Ernst gets wind of the danger and bravely steps up when well-meaning staffers are side-tracked, determined to save himself and other child lives. — KGF Vissers.
Reviewed by: Amber Wilkinson. "Like the fog in August of its title, the horrors of Wessel's film don't come in a rush, but insinuate themselves gradually in what, initially, appears to be a comparatively benign setting before leaving you chilled to the bone." Tweet. The Nazi death camps have been well-documented down the years in everything ...
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