In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery

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Summary

Before presuming that a film about a cemetery must be a deadly serious affair, consider the following:

- The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery in Berlin contains 115,000 graves sprawled across one hundred acres of magnificent parkland, making it the largest active Jewish burial ground in Europe.

- It has been in continuous operation under Jewish authority for 130 years, including during the Nazi regime, which, curiously, left the cemetery and its archives undestroyed.

- This film—yes, a film about a cemetery—won the coveted Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival.

In Heaven Underground is a lush, surprising, uplifting and utterly absorbing journey.

—Peter L. Stein

Canadian Premiere

Year: 2011
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany
Language: English, German and Russian, with English subtitles
Subject: N/A
Run time: 90
Format: DigiBeta

Director: Britta Wauer