Part historical drama, part love story: this is a film that brings us close to a person who we barely knew but would like to get to know. Peter Brückner was an intellectual with an atypically frank nature. A political human being for whom the label of dissident was an honorary title. A damaged man who knew how to turn his injuries into positives. AUS DEM ABSEITS recalls this forgotten character. And above all, the director Simon Brückner introduces us to his father, who he never got to know properly himself. AUS DEM ABSEITS is sensitive and adept in its use of a wide range of media. A film that recounts the fragmentary essence of memory - and perhaps of documentary per se - its fragility and constructed nature. In this way, he brings Peter Brückner back to life. We want to read his work, find out more about him, and get to know him - the intellectual and the father.
