Fegefeuer

It has been repeatedly shown that individual films and even whole genres and eras can be reappraised when made visible in new contexts. One case for such a reappraisal is surely FEGEFEUER by Haro Senft, who called for a New German Cinema in 1962 as one of the co-initiators of the Oberhausen Manifesto. FEGEFEUER is a psychological thriller about political murder and taking the law into one’s own hands and is one of those films that didn’t receive much attention when it was made, but has endured and is more than worth revisiting.