STELLA – A LIFE

STELLA - EIN LEBEN

By Kilian RIEDHOF

LETTERBOX FILMPRODUKTION GMBH - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2022

Tortured and threatened with deportation, the young German Jew Stella is forced into a fateful tragedy: She begins to track down fellow Jews in hiding.

Festivals
& Awards

Zurich FF 2023
Gala Premieres
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 113 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kilian RIEDHOF
    • Writer(s)
    • Marc BLÖBAUM, Jan BRAREN, Kilian RIEDHOF
    • Producer(s)
    • Michael LEHMANN (LETTERBOX Filmproduktion GmbH), Katrin GOETTER (LETTERBOX Filmproduktion GmbH)
    • Synopsis
    • Stella, a young German Jew, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz singer, despite all the repressive measures. After she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in February 1943, her life turns into a culpable tragedy. Through a betrayal, she is caught by the Gestapo, tortured and becomes a "grabber": to save herself and her parents from deportation to Auschwitz, Stella begins to systematically betray other Jews. From September 1943 until the end of the war, Stella Goldschlag delivered hundreds of fellow Jews to the Gestapo.