14. März 1938 - An Afternoon

There is a historically mythological narrative which reflects Austrian patriotism, depicting the 1938 "annexation" to Germany as follows: The external entity of politics forcibly enters a bourgeois interior which had existed in unsuspecting privacy until that point, and then Austria sinks into National Socialism. This narrative was employed as late as the 70th anniversary of the "annexation" in a March 2008 television debate; even the "Nazi invasion of Austria" was mentioned once.
March 14, 1938 – One Afternoon, a home movie which has been repurposed as found footage, turns this narrative around, tersely and in every possible way. We see...