Hai cercato: Zwei Wege

Two Paths / 1966

This short piece for the television station Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) is highly relevant to Farocki's later work. Zwei Wege is a cheeky description of a picture; Farocki shows us an image, a religious allegory showing the 'right' and the 'wrong' path for a Christian. The one path leads to heaven, the other to hell. Farocki uses the camera in effect to dissect the picture; he shows close-ups of the paintings various motifs, which he underscores with rhymes. This method of breaking down an image with the camera reminds us of similar sequences in his essay films, namely Wie man sieht and Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges.

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Die Köchin des Kommandanten - Zwei Wege nach Auschwitz /

The documentary tells the story of the two lives of Rudolf Höß and Sophie Stippel, who take different paths in their search for inner stability - with far-reaching consequences. Both knew each other from their youth in Mannheim and met again in 1942 during the Nazi regime in the Auschwitz concentration camp, on opposing sides: Sophie Stippel is imprisoned as a Jehovah's Witness, Rudolf Höss is the commandant of this death factory.