Story
Story
TRACKING EDITH
EDITH TUDOR–HART, A COURAGEOUS WOMAN WITH A MISSION
a documentary film by Peter Stephan Jungk
When she wasn’t working as a Soviet agent, she was taking photos of Vienna’s and London’s workers and street children, of poverty and social deprivation.
Being a secret agent doesn’t seem to have come naturally to the photographer Edith Tudor-Hart (born Edith Suschitzky in 1908, in Vienna, died 1973 in Brighton).
She recruited Kim Philby, and was one of the architects of the Cambridge Five, the Soviet Union’s most successful spy ring in Great Britain.
Edith was Jungk’s great aunt, his mother’s cousin; the writer/film maker tries to unravel the truth about his aunt’s life, in Austria, Great Britain and Russia .
A documentary about the renowned photographer, about a spy with a conscience and hidden secrets in a family.
"I watched this compelling film with fascination. An amazing quest – and very timely." Michael Haneke
Awards & Nominations: Gershon Klein Preis for "Best Director Documentary" at the Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg (JFBB) & Honorable Mention at the Vukovar Film Festival.
Review in THE GUARDIAN on the occasion of the release of ‘Tracking Edith’ in the UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/27/tracking-edith-review-documentary-engima-camera
The film's next international screening will take place at the GOETHE INSTITUT in Paris, on March 19 2019, at 7.30pm
‘Tracking Edith’ is now available as a DVD from First Run Features in the Unites States and Canada (NTSC):
…and in VOD in the UK, Ireland, Gibraltar and the Isle of Man:
Interview partner
Interview partner
Interview Partners for Tracking Edith
- Paul Broda, Son of Physicist Engelbert Broda, Biochemist, Edinburgh
- Valeri Chepelev, Vice Director of Comintern, Moscow
- Julia Donat, Edith’s Niece, Daughter of Wolf Suschitzky, Artistic Director, Norwich
- Misha Donat, Edith’s Nephew, Son of Wolf Suschitzky, Music Historian, London
- Duncan Forbes, Photo Historian & Curator
- Barbara Honigmann, Writer, daughter of Lizzy Friedmann, Kim Philby’s First Wife
- Vlad Ketkovich, our translator in Moscow
- Anna Kim, Writer, Vienna
- Barry McLoughlin, Historian , Vienna
- Felix De Mendelssohn, Psychoanalyst , Vienna
- Igor Prelin, Ex-KGB-Officer In Moscow
- Irina Scherbakova, Director of the NGO ‘Memorial’, In Moscow
- Kitty Schmidt Löw-Beer, Psychoanalyst , Vienna
- Peter Suschitzky, Edith’s Nephew, Son of Wolf Suschitzky, Cameraman & Photographer, London
- Wolf Suschitzky Brother of Edith, Cameraman & Photographer, London
- Wolfgang Thöner, Photo Historian, Bauhaus Dessau
- Julian Tudor-Hart, Son of Alexander Tudor-Hart from his first marriage, Retired Medical Practitioner, Wales
- Alexander Vassiliev, Ex-KGB-Officer, London
- Nigel West, Military- and Secret Service Historian, Canterbury, GB
Peter Stephan Jungk
Peter Stephan Jungk
Peter Stephan Jungk, the Director & Writer
The prolific novelist, essayist, documentary film maker and screenwriter was born in the United States and raised in Austria and Germany.
He studied screenwriting at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
Several of Jungk’s books have been published in the US and in Great Britain – his novel The Perfect American, a dramatic portrayal of Walt Disney’s last months, was turned into an opera by Philip Glass and premiered in 2013.
"Tracking Edith" is based on Jungk's biography of his great aunt, published as "Die Dunkelkammern der Edith Tudor-Hart" by S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt in 2015.
The Producer Lillian Birnbaum
born in New York City, raised in Vienna, Austria.
In 2010 she founded the production company peartree entertainment in Vienna with an office in Paris. peartree’s goal is to create film and TV projects that are stimulating and entertaining for mind and soul. Lillian develops and packages the projects and seeks global financing to bring them to the screen. Several international projects are in development.
Between 1997 and 2009, Lillian was the closest collaborator of film producer and multiple Oscar winner Arthur Cohn.
Lillian executive produced award winning films, including
Central Station by Walter Salles in 1998, which won the Golden Bear in Berlin,
One Day In September by Kevin MacDonald which won the Oscar in 2000 for Best Documentary,
The Children of Huang Shi directed by Roger Spottiswoode,
The Yellow Handkerchief, 2008, directed by Udayan Prasad, starring William Hurt, Eddie Redmayne and Kristen Stewart.
Technical Data
Technical Data
TRACKING EDITH
A 2016, 92 min, 16:9, DCP, German, English, Russian, French with English Subtitles
Directed by Peter Stephan Jungk
Written by Peter Stephan Jungk
Cinematography Jerzy Palacz
Editing Bettina Mazakarini
Music Score Rupert Huber
Animation Neuer Österreichischer Trickfilm
Producer Lillian Birnbaum
Co-producer Roland Hablesreiter
Production company peartree-entertainment GmbH
in collaboration with Transmitter Film
Supported by Austrian film Institute, ORF, The Future Fund of the Republic of Austria, National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
Contact: Production Company & Sales
peartree-entertainment.com
Fleischmarkt 16
1010 Wien, Austria
tel .+33 607797982 / +43 660 706 9817
e-mail: lbirnbaum@peartree-entertainment.com
Distributor USA
First Run Features
The Film Center Building
630 Ninth Avenue, Suite 1213
New York, NY 10036
tel: +1 212 243 06 00
fax: +1 212 989 7649
e-mail: info@firstrunfeatures.com
Links
Links
LINKS
Distributor USA: First Run Features
Distributor Germany: Basis-Film Verleih Berlin
Distributor Austria: Stadtkino Wien
Based on Peter Stephan Jungk's book @ Fischer Verlag
BBC: Kim Philby - British Double Agent reveals all in secret video
SOUNDTRACK (Original Score by Rupert Huber) available on...
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