Six Million and One

Nach dem Tod von David Fishers Vater findet der Filmemacher dessen Memoiren, welche von der grausamen Zeit erzählen, die Joseph Fisher im Zweiten Weltkrieg miterlebt hat. 2010 beschließt der Regisseur mit seiner Schwester und zwei seiner Brüder von Israel nach Österreich zu reisen, um die Schauplätze von damals zu besuchen. Sie kommen nach Gusen, wo ihr Vater in einem Außenlager des KZ Mauthausen inhaftiert war. Konfrontiert mit ihrer eigenen Geschichte und der ihrer Familie, begegnen sich die Geschwister lachend und weinend in einer skurilen, intimen Situation in den Katakomben des Lagers.

Joseph Fisher‘s memoir was discovered only after his death. His children refused to confront it, except for David, the filmmaker, for whom it became a compass for a long journey. When he found it unbearable to be alone in the wake of his father‘s survival story and his struggle not to lose his sanity, David convinced his brothers and sister to join him in the hope that this would also contribute to releasing tensions and making them as close as they used to be. In the dark depths of the tunnels, part of an Austrian concentration camp, where their father had slaved during the Holocaust, illuminated only by flashlights, the Fishers seek meaning in their personal and family histories. As their deepest pains are exposed, they find themselves crying and laughing, in bittersweet scenes that give this personal film a rare sense of intimacy.