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Title: RUCKENLAGE UPSIDE DOWN

Reference number: 7906

Date: 2006

Director: d. Astrid Bussink

Sponsor: Scottish Screen, Scottish Enterprise, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace

Producer: Sonja Henrici

Production company: p.c Bridging the Gap

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 8.57 mins

Description: An interpretation of the story of Rudolf Hess’s mysterious flight to Scotland in 1941. The Deputy Führer of the Third Reich flew across alone, unannounced and uninvited, claiming he wanted to ’negotiate peace.’ Narrated through his many letters to his wife and family the film is a visual journey through Scotland’s skies and a journey through the mind of Hess who spent the rest of his life in prison.

Part of Season 3 'Bridging the Gap' documentary scheme, on the theme of "Lies".

View this film at Scottish Documentary Institute website at http://www.docscene.org/ruckenlage.html [last accessed 15/2/2010]

Credits: Scottish Documentary Institute presents A Bridging the Gap production in association with Scottish Screen

Text / excerpts of letters written by Rudolph Hess in prison
voiceover Andre Hennicke

Special thanks to Jim Hardie and his Messerschmitt
pilots Fraser Beaton, Willie Devlin

Thanks to Andy McGregor, Kieran Brady at Strathallan Skydive, Arnold Clark, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Karl Hoeffkes, Andrea Hess, Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, Giesela Spiering, Alan Stevenson & Lorna at Prestwick Flight Centre, Kim Longinotto, Michael Grigsby, Axel und Barbara Henrici, Darri Donnelly, Tamara van Strijthem, Amy Hardie, Keith Bowman, University of Napier, Jan Schaten, Evi Tsiligaridou, Sebastiaan Schlicher, Jackie Rayner, Marjolein Rothman, Eefje Versteegen, Hans Mulder

archive Polarfilm, Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, RBB, Werner Rieb

cinematographer Ian Dodds
sd. designer Matt Hulse
p. ass. Finlay Pretsell
v/o recording Mario Fister
Berlin liaison Marcus Welsch
graphic design Kunny van der Ploeg
ed. Astrid Bussink
online ed. Katarina Turler
online mastering Malcolm Warner, Playback HD
p. Sonja Henrici
short film exec. Scottish Screen Julia Caithness
exec. p. Noe Mendelle

A Bridging the Gap production supported by The National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Edinburgh College of Art, Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh & Lothian, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Institute