Flashback (2002)

Flashback plot

Latvian director Herz Frank decides to make a sequel to his '10 Minutes Older', a short film from 1978 that only shows the face of a little boy watching a puppet theater performance. Frank's new film should be called '20 years older' and for the recordings he visits the same boy from then. But then various circumstances ensure that the filmmaker ends up in a personal crisis. He wonders what the value is of making documentaries, of filming other people's lives over and over again. And now he decides to focus on his own life. In this highly personal film, reflecting the confusion and musings of this period, Frank takes the viewer on a subjective journey, crisscrossing his past and present. We see images from the past, photos of his father who instilled in him the love for photography. We hear the gruesome stories about his family, many of whom were murdered during the Second World War, and see the circumcision of his grandson. Sad are the images of his wife Ira, who falls ill and eventually dies. All these memories and images make Frank realize that all his work revolves around the same theme: a person only gets to know himself on the border of death.

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