Documentary / Experimental Film
Ole-Kristian Heyer, Patrick Lohse, Marian Mayland
16 min., 16:9, colour
2020

In August 1984, a house in Duisburg-Wanheimerort inhabited exclusively by so-called “guest workers” caught fire. Seven people died and many others were seriously injured. While the investigating authorities initially identified a carelessly discarded cigarette as the most likely cause of the fire, the victims’ relatives were already asking at the time whether it was really a coincidence that their house had been set on fire. Together with the initiative DU1984, the relatives and survivors of the attack are campaigning for the case to be re-examined and for the creation of a site of remembrance.