Anne Gaedcke

Being Killed

Volker Maria Arend

Maike Moeller Bornstein, Gerhard Acktun

Rosas Höllenfahrt

Rosa von Praunheim

Eva-Maria Kurz, Hamze Bytyci

A German documentary studying concepts of hell developed over time in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, often overlapping -but not in Catholicism- with purgatory. Special attention goes to 'physical' methods of torture in the afterlife, as in Dante's Inferno. Their inspiration stems partially from judicial torments, as used during the Inquisition to redeem 'Satanic' sinners, from witches and heretics to mere gay people. Also treated is hell's theological and 'educational' meaning.