Meine Tante Lydia

My Aunt Lydia
by Hermann Weiskopf

Austria, 2008
Digital Betacam
Colour
Length: 37’
Language: German

Italian premiere

This is a true story, told by the protagonist herself. During World War II, Lydia, eighteen years old, discovers she is one quarter Jewish. At the same time, she falls in love with the young Klaus. She is arrested by the Gestapo for having publicly declared that Hitler is losing the war,
and while in prison learns that she is pregnant. But Klaus is also Jewish, and for this reason sought by the Nazis...

Hermann Weiskopf
Born in Innsbruck in 1962, he lived for a long period in Rome where he studied acting and worked with important directors including Mario Monicelli, Franco Zeffirelli, Tinto Brass, Sergio Corbucci, and Federico Fellini. When he returned to Austria he began his producing career and in 2008 made his first film.

Director: Hermann Weiskopf
Subject: Peter Mair, Hermann Weiskopf, Josch H. Pfisterer
Screenplay: Peter Mair
Photography: Josch H. Pfisterer
Editing: Josch H. Pfisterer
Sound: Tomas Bastian
Music: Bernard Falkner
Main cast: Elena Knapp, Marco Schaaf, Stephanie Brenner, Christian Turik, Erwin Bosin, Helmuth A. Häusler, Belinda Maurer, Marlene Markt, Enzo  Weiskopf
Production Company: Audiovisuelle Gedächtnis Produktion

Audiovisuelle Gedächtnis Produktion
Franz-Baumann-Weg 22?
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
T. + 43 660 6516432
hermann.w@chello.at