The Birdlife of Auschwitz

When the prisoner Marek is appointed sketch artist for the concentration camp guard Hans Grote to assist him in exploring the camp's birdlife, he soon believes he will be free, with his fiancée Elisa in Krakow. He is wrong. To survive, he will have to learn to think small: draw, prepare dead animals, not swim across the Vistula. Smell the crematoria, hear the lullabies of the women on their way to the gas chambers, ask no questions, be patient. And above all: never get sick. Arno Surminski paints a harrowing psychogram of two men who escape into a false idyll from the unimaginable horror of the extermination camp. The everyday, matter-of-factly described images of terror do not affect his protagonists, but they do affect us - right to the heart.


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