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Fog in August

Panorama

  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Kai Wessel
  • Germany, Austria 2016
  • 126 minutes
  • German
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Ernst, a 13-year-old German boy, is sent to a psychiatric hospital when he’s deemed unruly and insolent by Nazi officials. Unexpectedly, Ernst finds friendship among the patients and for the first time feels like he might belong. He soon discovers that the hospital has a euthanasia program headed by Dr. Veithausen.
Director Kai Wessel returns to a dark period in the last century for the first feature film to address one of the greatest taboos of German history - the Nazis' euthanasia program.
Filmography: Hilde (2009), Goebbels und Geduldig (2001), The Summer Album (1992), Martha Jellneck (1988).


  • Director Kai Wessel
  • Production Ulrich Limmer
  • Script Holger Karsten Schmidt, based on the book by Robert Domes
  • Cinematography Hagen Bogdanski
  • Editing Tina Freitag
  • Music Martin Todsharow
  • Actors Sebastian Koch, Ivo Pietzcker, Franziska Singer, Jule Hermann

Fog in August