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Plot Fog in August (2016):

A Roma boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what was happening and attached to friends, the lad attempts to sabotage the program. The film addresses the complexities of the program director, the lives of the child victims, and the struggles of the child protagonist. More than five thousand children died in the Nazi euthanasia program.

Movie details

Title: Fog in August
Released: 2016-09-29
Genre: Drama
Director: Greta Gerwig
Date: 2016-09-29
Runtime: 126 Minutes
Company: C, C, D, S, A, B
Homepage: Homepage Movie
Trailer: Video Trailer

Casts of Fog in August:

Ivo Pietzcker, Sebastian Koch, Fritzi Haberlandt, Thomas Schubert, Henriette Confurius, Branko Samarovski, David Bennent, Karl Markovics, Jule Hermann, Niklas Post, Patrick Heyn, Juls Serger, Franziska Singer, Arne Wichert,

Fog in August (German: Nebel im August) is a 2016 German drama film directed by Kai Wessel. It was listed as one of eight films that could be the German submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not selected.

Nebel im August (2016) A Roma boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what was happening and attached to friends, the lad attempts to sabotage the program.

Fog in August (2016) Based on a real story, the 2016 film by Kai Wessel, Fog in August, is a powerful Coming-of-Age drama exposing one of the horrible crimes of the Nazi regime and its inhumanity, as told through the eyes of a young boy.

Fog in August is a 2016 German drama film directed by Kai Wessel. It was listed as one of eight films that could be the German submission for the Best Foreig... Skip navigation

Summary: Fog in August stirs the deepest of emotions in an intense and heart-breaking narrative. But in amongst all in injustice depicted there is a beautiful tenderness to be found, both in the friendships and emotional bonds that are forged between the children.

There can be soft and hard forms of this thinking and what the ‘Fog in August’ depicts is the most hardest form under Nazism. It is not a fiction but history. Between 1939 and 1945, an estimated 200,000 patients including 5,000 children in Germany who were considered physically and mentally disabled were systematically murdered through a forced euthanasia program.

This is why Nebel im August (“Fog in August”), a German-Austrian film released in these two countries last September, is […]

We know that the Nazis were evil, particularly when they supported state-sponsored euthanasia and eugenics.

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