And Along Come Tourists

And Along Come Tourists is a 2007 German dramatic film that was written and directed by Robert Thalheim. The principal characters are a young German doing civilian service at the former German Auschwitz concentration camp and an elderly camp survivor living there. Thalheim himself did his civilian service Zivildienst at the International Youth Meeting Center in OwicimAuschwitz in 19961997, and portions of the film were shot at the Center and in the nearby town of Owicim, Poland. Filming was not permitted at the site of the concentration camp itself, where more than one million persons had been murdered by the end of the Second World War in 1945. Jrgen Fauth and Marcy Dermansky have written of the film that, Without ever resorting to preachiness, Thalheim, who was a Zivi at Auschwitz himself, offers incisive insights into the thorny contradictions and treacherous crosscurrents of guilt and memory that turn any kind of exploration of the overbearing past into a minefield.

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