Documentary

Mauthausen – Two Lives

he documentary MAUTHAUSEN – TWO LIVES tells the story of two people who were in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp during the Nazi regime – Stanisław Leszczyński, born in Łódź, was there as a prisoner, while Franz Hackl, from Mauthausen, worked there as an apprentice. Two fates that could not have been more contrary – and yet they have so many disturbing things in common.

Data

Category: Documentary
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: DCP, 80 Min
Release: 22.10.2020
Distribution: LET´S CEE Filmfestival
Admissions: 1.069
Funding Film Institute: 68.500 €
Share of total production costs: 51 %
Television investment: 40.000 €
VoD Release: 22.04.2021
DVD Release: 22.01.2021
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 21.01.2022
Viewers: 163.000
Film location: Mauthausen, Warsaw
Shooting time: October - November 2016
Days of shooting: 17
Completion: Fall 2019
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Land Oberösterreich

Credits

Production: Simon Wieland Film e.U.
Producer: Simon Wieland
Director: Simon Wieland
Script-concept: Franz Simon Wieland, Andreas Kuba
DOP: Simon Wieland
Editor: Marleen Paeschke
Sound engineer: Simon Wieland
Protagonists: Stanislaw Leszczynski, Franz Hackl
Music: Peter Kaizar
Production manager: Michael Holzinger
German Title: Mauthausen - Zwei Leben
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)