• Documentary

The Evil

How could normal people become unimaginable criminals? How quickly people are prepared to give up all traces of humanity for conformity and uniformity? The film attempts to question the political, sociological and psychological factors "ordinary men" make merciless mass murderers. It is following to the places of horror and shows in reconstructed psychological experiments how important our people conformity and uniformity are and how alarmingly fast we are prepared to give up all humanity.

Data

aka
Böse, Das
Category
Documentary
Financing
Minority coproduction
Format
DCP, 90 Min
Release
17.01.2014
Distribution
FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions
21.365
Co-production

DocMovie (DE)

International funding

Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Hessen Invest

Funding program
ÖFI
Film location
Ukraine, Germany, USA
Shooting time
September - November 2012
Completion
Spring 2013
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut
Credits
Production
Aichholzer Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer Austria
Josef Aichholzer
Director
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Script-concept
Stefan Ruzowitzky
DOP
Benedict Neuenfels
Editor
Barbara Gies
Sound engineer
Michael Busch, Tatjana Jakob, Matthias Lempert
Music
Patrick Pulsinger
Production manager
Kurt Otterbacher
German Title
Das radikal Böse
Television investment
ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ZDF