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The Power of SuspectingEginald Schlattner and the Securitate TraumaA film by Walter Wehmeyer (90min.) Eginald Schlattner, author and prison chaplain, experienced the terror of the Romanian dictatorship first hand. Already at the age of ten, as a member of the German minority, Eginald Schlattner witnessed the turn many Siebenbürger Saxons took towards Nazism. At the end of the 1050s, Schlattner, then a student, was arrested by the Securitate. The henchmen torture him with sleep withdrawal and beatings. After months of intense interrogation, having become a convinced communist, he decided to disclose information about a number of authors who were critical of the regime. In his controversial novel, “Red Gloves,” Schlattner recapitulates the two years of his imprisonment. The book minutely reveals the psycho-terror of the secret service. In the film we encounter the author, who lives in Siebenbürgen (Transylvania), and several of his comrades-in-fate who survived the crimes of the Romanian regime as political prisoners. The research leads us to former Securitate officers, a former penal camp and to the national council for the review of Securitate files. Sunken FacesThe novels of the Transylvanian prison chaplain, Eginald SchlattnerA film by Walter Wehmeyer (52min.) The film tells of the three big novels in which the author, who lives in Transylvania, captured his memories: "The Beheaded Rooster", "The Piano in the Fog" and "Red Gloves".
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