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Sound in the Silence

The film documents the development of a performance by students from Koszalin/Poland and Hamburg in the former Neuengamme concentration camp. Under the guidance of dancers, musicians and rappers from New York, San Francisco and Hamburg, the young people get involved in this place and its history for five days. Despite initial reservations and openly expressed fears of dancing or singing here of all places, a process begins in which the students of both nations find their own, very moving form of expression to deal with the past.

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The film documents the development of a performance by students from Koszalin/Poland and Hamburg in the former Neuengamme concentration camp. Under the guidance of dancers, musicians and rappers from New York, San Francisco and Hamburg, the young people get involved in this place and its history for five days. Despite initial reservations and openly expressed fears of dancing or singing here of all places, a process begins in which the students of both nations find their own, very moving form of expression to deal with the past.

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