My father, Rua Alguem 5555 / Gherardo Pagliei, Elisabetta Riga, Roberto Buttafarro present an Italian-Brasilian-Hungarian co-production, GAM Film srl. (Italy), Total Entertainment Ltda. (Brazil), Focus Film Filmproduction & Distribution (Hungary) ; directed by Egidio Eronico ; produced by Gherardo Pagliei ; screenplay by Egidio Eronico and Antonella Grassi ; based on the novel Vati by Peter Schneider, published by Rohwold in Reibeck (Germany), [1996] ; a GAM Film production.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DVD-1052

Overview

Summary: In this fictional film, a man who grew up as an orphan travels to Brazil to finally meet his father, the psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp inmates during World War II.
Other Title: Vati.
Variant Title: Shi no tenchi : Aushuvittsu shūyōsho jintai jikken ishi
Format: Video
Published: [Tokyo] : Sg-me, Softgarage Media Entertainment : Hanbai, JSDSS, [2005?]
Locale: Brazil
Poland
Other Authors/Editors: Pagliei, Gherardo.
Riga, Elisabetta.
Buttafarro, Roberto.
Grassi, Antonella.
Kende, János.
Giagni, Riccardo.
Heston, Charlton.
Kretschmann, Thomas, 1962-
Abraham, F. Murray.
Schneider, Peter, 1940-
GAM Film srl.
Total Entertainment Ltda.
Focus Film Filmproduction & Distribution.
Softgarage Media Entertainment (Firm)
JSDSS (Firm)
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.

Special features: Trailer.

Cinematography, Janos Kende ; original music, Riccardo Giagni.

Charlton Heston, Thomas Kretschmann, F. Murray Abraham.

DVD (PAL, region 2); aspect ratio 16:9 or 1.85:1; stereo or 5.1.

DVD (NTSC, region 2); aspect ratio 16:9; Dolby digital.

Soundtracks in English or Japanese; subtitles in Japanese.

Subjects: War criminals--Brazil--Drama. Fathers and sons--Drama. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Drama. Human experimentation in medicine--Drama. Feature films. Video recordings. Drama. Mengele, Josef,--1911-1979--Drama. Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Drama.

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