Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto

Synopsis

The Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. Samek, an eight year old boy who is naughty and full of life, peeks through a hole in the ghetto wall and sees a carrot lying on the sidewalk just on the other side. He tries to pull the carrot through the hole with a piece of wire, unaware that two SS men are posted nearby and are following his every move.

Director Biography

Twenty-seven years of age, Johan Oettinger is a self taught Danish director and filmmaker who has worked on stop-motion and live action productions since his 13th year. A number of commercial productions are on his filmography. In 2001 he directed his first short film ‘The Killing of Evil,’ and since that time he has directed and produced 2-3 short films a year, many of them together with the creative partner Emil Brahe, composer and filmmaker.