... hard-headed look into the inconceivable...
With the documentary "Spiegelgrund" two young film-makers produced a sensible contribution to a long-time neglected chapter of nazi-era.
... The emotional memories tell a story of horror, better than any historical textbook.
"Spiegelgrund" tells the story of a well-known, but long-time neglected, chapter of the Austrian nazi-past: not spectacular like in the Austrian press, but quite more impressive.
Die Presse, Vienna

... the unsensational story about one of the darkest chapters of the younger Austrian history ...
Kleine Zeitung

It is even more encouraging that the documentary "Spiegelgrund" tells an unsensational story that is concentrated on the memories and life of the victims.
... the documentary demonstrates various aspects of this high-explosive story ...
One point is really shown quite clear: Up to the present time, Austria has done more for the committors than for the victims.
Der Standard, Vienna

"Spiegelgrund" is a deeply impressing document about the Austrian suppression of history after 1945. The documentary tells the point of view of the victims in a clear unsensational way. The committors have no word. They had been in the foreground for a (too) long time.
Kurier, Vienna

A deeply impressing documentary about the Vienna euthanasia clinic.
... Crimes and horror, hard to imagine and to understand. Therefore an important contribution to the discussions about the Austrian history.
Wiener Zeitung, Vienna

The film is following the path of victims as well as of committors, who have escaped justice up to the present.
Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin

... tells the story of euthanasia in a Vienna reformatory between 1940 and 1945.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürich

Documentaries have always attracted attention in Austria. It is no surprise that with the opposition movement waving through this country, documentaries are now shown in cinemas. Those documentaries are telling the stories of the persecution of the Gypsies and the Jews or of the surviving victims of the euthanasia-program, without any complacency in describing the nazi-past of this country.
Several young filmmakers are now coming to light, often rebelling against the silence of their grandfathers who served in the Wehrmacht.
The documentary of Angelika Schuster and Tristan Sindelgruber "Spiegelgrund" tells the story of the termination of "anti-German elements" (handicapped, anti-social deliquents, ...) in a brilliant way.
This story is a quite immediate problem, one of the former nazi-doctors, Heinrich Gross, is facing justice, his trial was adjourned recently, right after the opening session.
The documentary is charging the silence that surrounds this aspect of the criminal nazi-machinery in Austria, up to the present time.
Liberation, Paris