His­to­ria Mag­is­tra Vitae

Historia magistra vitae is a fragment of a memory on a flight. The flight of Dara Mayer, a ethnic German Croatian, who fled from the Croatian War in 1991 to Germany. Historia magistra vitae, History, Teacher of Life, so the film portraits the circle of history mirrored in a personal story. The collective memory forgets faster then the personal and still, in the end, the only thing thats left are fragments, which need to be put in new contexts.

Credits

Cast:

Dara Mayer – Voice-Over

Script:

Tamara Erbe

Camera:

Tamara Erbe

Editing:

Tamara Erbe

Producer:

Tamara Erbe

Sound:

Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan

Giovanni Zeitz

Frank Behnke

Film info

Direction:

Tamara Erbe

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany, Croatia

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Goethe Institut

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, subtitles available in German, Italian, Englisch

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5