Schachten: A Retribution

Florida Premiere

Set in Vienna in the 1960s, this edge-of-your-seat thriller follows the story of young Jewish businessman Victor, who continues to grieve his mother and sister’s murder at Mauthausen concentration camp. Motivated by his desire for justice, Victor seeks retribution by bringing legal action against the commandant who murdered them and by enlisting the help of Simon Wiesenthal, the renowned Nazi hunter who devoted his life to methodically tracking down and gathering evidence against former Nazi leaders. They come to trial, but the corrupt legal system, still riddled with former Nazis, leaves Victor without faith in formal justice, and with no option but to take matters into his own hands. In its portrayal of the struggles of the post-war generation to obtain justice for Holocaust crimes, Schächten: A Retribution brilliantly captures an awakening and confrontation with a country’s Nazi past.