Of course, it has another meaning: the title looks in the first fraction of a second like “Auschwitz”. Loznitsa’s Austerlitz is a documentary study, with almost no audible dialogue of any kind, of the increasingly established tourist phenomenon at the Nazi death camps in Germany. And yet the film is far from a simple complaint that these uniquely important historical sites are being degraded by the tourist industry. Openness to the public means tolerating a level of what might be conceived as vulgarity and disrespect – but might not be. Everyone is looking, looking, looking.

Source: The Guardian November 21, 2016 13:07 UTC