House of Atonement

House of Atonement

  • Overview
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2016

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Sühnhaus

Production Companies

FreibeuterFilm

Director

Maya McKechneay

Description

The story of a luckless address: Vienna, Schottenring 7. This was the site of Ringtheater were nearly four hundred people died in a fire in 1881. Where the emperor subsequently built the Sühnhaus ('the house of atonement') to make up for it and no-one wanted to live there.