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| The Green Grass Beneath |
Six years after their first filmic encounter, Karin Berger returns to speak with Ceija Stojka about her experiences as a child inmate in Auschwitz, Ravenbruck and Bergen-Belsen.
Dispensing with traditional war footage, Berger distils history, concentrating on the personal, the interior, and the direct and uncompromising language of survival.
Stojka's words are gentle, entrenched in the back roads of memory - what she ate, where she slept. Her resilience and adaptability as a child is paramount to all her tales, and strangely this in itself is more confronting than any tale of horror. To know this reality, one rarely seen in such films, is a remarkable insight.
