- Widerstandsmomente (Moments of Resistance) carries voices, writings and objects from the anti-Nazi resistance into the present. Politically engaged women of today respond to historical resistance and make links to current events. A line is drawn from what was before and what is today to what might be: a society based on solidarity without discrimination or exclusion.
- Widerstandsmomente (Moments of Resistance) is a film about civil courage shown by women in the past and in the present. It begins with small but sustained acts of disobedience by women against the Nazi regime. With Anna Cadia who refused to watch as Jews were beaten and humiliated in Leoben. With Helene Pawlik who as a forced farm laborer fought off her brutal boss. With Edith Gadawits and the "Soldiers' Council Group" who produced flyers calling on soldiers to desert from the German Army. People at work. Working landscapes. Today. At a printing works, robots load rolls of paper into the machine, a newspaper is printed. In a vineyard, the vine stocks are pruned back, the seasons change. Cleaners clean a university lecture hall, students attend a lecture. The voices of Anna Cadia, Helene Pawlik, and Edith Gadawits in these landscapes. Speaking about their resistance against the Nazi regime, resistance by working women. Organized, political, spontaneous, in keeping with their worldview, as self defense. In these working landscapes, periods of time overlap. The film does not remain in the past. The courage of the past is transferred to our present. Judith Umathum works with refugees. Together with Ana Antic, she protests against deportation. Having fled political persecution herself, María Cristina Boidi campaigns for women's rights. Rúbia Salgado and Gergana Mineva found "das kollektiv." Ines Mahmoud is active in the Muslim Civil Society Network. Support, education, critique. Collectivity as a way of shifting borders. Mementos from resistance against the Nazis. A cardigan for a daughter, knitted in prison. A flyer exhorting people to work as slowly as possible. A secret message from prison to those in freedom outside. No heroism. Motivation and inspiration to do something against injustice. The women featured in the film pick up on this history, take what they think they can use, think about it. Will you join us? The women of the "Soldiers' Council Group" in Marie Paul's graffiti. The Yiddish song in the poem by Rúbia Salgado. It's Burning! Timeless moments, for resistance, now or tomorrow.
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