Stoke Your Fires Film Festival, Stoke, UK - WINNER, BEST UK DOCUMENTARY
Athens Jewish Film Festival, Georgia, USA - 2ND PRIZE WINNER, SHORT FILM COMPETITION
A meditative story of a parent child relationship, Heilig offers an intimate portrait of Jewish Kindertransport refugee Gerhard Heilig, now 85 and living in retirement in Vienna.
Heilig explores not only Gerhard’s own escape from Nazi Austria but the imprisonment at Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps of his father, Bruno Heilig, an anti-nazi political journalist and later, writer of one of the first eye witness accounts of life in the concentration camps.
