Schattenstunde

Filmmaker Benjamin Martins spent two years studying the life of the Christian writer Jochen Klepper. Using Klepper’s extensive diary entries, Martins prepared a film that casts light on a dark chapter in German history. Beginning with the last encounter between Klepper and SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, the film focuses on Klepper’s last hours spent together with his Jewish wife Johanna and stepdaughter Renate. On December 10th 1942, Eichmann rejected their applications to emigrate. The same night, the Kleppers took their own lives. The family’s last conversations are sensitively interwoven with Klepper’s various diary entries. Many of the dialogues are based in part on Klepper’s writings and still remain relevant today.