• Film running length: 87 min
• UK release date: 8/11/2008
• Directed by: Dorte Franke, Peter Jordan
• Language: English
• Distributor: Uk Jewish Film Festival

Who´s in it?

What´s the plot? Is there a right way to remember victims of the Holocaust? German artist Gunter Demnig thinks so, putting his own beautifully simple concept into practice by installing 12,000 ‘stumbling stones’ in pavements across Germany and Austria: the world’s largest decentralised memorial. Each stone features a brass plate with the details of the deported person who once lived there, a potent reminder to passers-by never to forget.

Embarking on a road trip with this irrepressible character, Dörte Franke travels from Berlin to Vienna to Budapest, recording reactions to Gunter’s work. Controversy is never far away. Neo-Nazis campaign, while attempts to install Stolpersteins in Munich were denounced by both the mayor and Jewish leaders in favour of a purpose-built museum, to the fury of one Manchester-based relative (Peter Jordan) who wants a memorial to his parents where everyone will see it – not just Jews.

Gunter’s army of supporters is huge, yet he works tirelessly to retain artistic control of his mission to bring eradicated biographies back into everyday life.