A 21-minute time machine to 1930s Germany that'll wreck your heart with faces history forgot.
The film portrays the photographer Walter Ballhause, who walks the streets of his home town of Hanover in the 1930s with his Leica and photographs people: People waiting on bridge railings, on park benches, in endless queues in front of the employment offices...
Cinematography
Ballhause's stolen Leica frames—candid, tender, dangerous.
Direction
Mund lets silence and stillness do the screaming.
Director
Karlheinz Mund
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ballhause was a self-taught electrician who taught himself photography during the Depression, shooting secretly with his hidden Leica.
His work was almost lost entirely—most negatives were destroyed in WWII bombing, making this film's surviving images extraordinarily rare documents of working-class German life under Nazism.
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