November 5th, 2003
Ninth November Night
Documentary - Children and the Holocaust in the art of Gottfried Helnwein.
Film 25 min Premiere at the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles, on November 9th, 2003, for the 65th anniversary of “Kristallnacht”.

Director: Henning LohnerCo-Director & Editor: Max CarlsonCommentators: Sean Penn, Maximilian Schell, Jason LeeIntroductory text by Simon WiesenthalDirector of Photography: Darren RydstromAdditional Camera: Jason Lee, Bernd ReinhardtProducer: Gisela Guttman

Helmut Lohner talkes with Gottfried Helnwein

Head of a Child
Installation "Ninth November Night"
Installation "Ninth November Night"
Maximilian Schell

The American Film Institute

AFIFEST, Los AngelesThe ArcLight Hollywood14. November 2004 - 14. November 2004

HELNWEIN'S "NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT" AT THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE FESTIVAL AFIFEST IN LOS ANGELES
Directed by Henning Lohner
A documentary on the works of Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein commemorating the Reichskristallnacht will bw screened on November 13th and 14th 2004. Noted Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, obsessed with the fact that his society could ignore the deaths of six million victims, dedicates his art to Holocaust remembrance. When the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht passes without commemoration, he creates an heroic art installation. Co-stars Maximiliam Schell, Sean Penn, Jason Lee.