Those who sat in the cheap seats paid with their lives

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Szene aus dem Dokumtarfilm "Sühnhaus" von Maya McKechneay. Source: www.freibeuterfilm.com

140 years ago, on December 8th, 1881, a devastating fire broke out in the Ringtheater in Vienna. Almost 400 people were burned to death. The filmmaker Maya McKechneay captures the disaster in her documentary "House of Atonement".


Maya McKechneay
Source: www.freibeuterfilm.com
sühnhaus
Source: www.freibeuterfilm.com

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