The Horses of a Cavalry Captain

(festival title)
  • Germany Die Pferde des Rittmeisters
all posters
Short / Documentary
Germany, 2015, 11 min

Plots(1)

This politico-aesthetic essay is based on found footage from the filmmaker's family archive. The horrifying parallel between horse breeding and the Nazi racial ideology takes on sharp contours thanks to the dry commentary and the montages of seemingly meaningless, coldly real images, which do not allow the film to drop down to the level of a mental or emotional exploitation of the topic. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)

(more)