The Mystery of Ingrid Pitt
THE
MYSTERY OF INGRID PITT
Four stories:
1. the one she tells in her memoir, Life’s a Scream (1999)
2.
the one that emerges from documents
3. the media story–press articles from the 1960s on–how she self-fashioned herself and how the media portrayed her
4.
the one in between, of questions, doubts, and research
Connecting and radically rewriting the history of two seemingly completely unrelated historical figures: a cult British horror actress/author and a German engineer/athlete with a unique record.
His story completes hers, and vice versa. There is Big History in the background.
What is true in her autobiographical account, and what did she make up? And why? In her 60s, with a distinguished career behind her, she didn’t need to prove anything to anyone. Was she really born, her parents on the run from the Nazis, at the back of the train station in Częstochowa, Poland? Did she really spend three years in the Stutthof concentration camp? Was her father really a rocket scientist whom the Nazis wanted “at any price”? Were her maternal grandparents Jewish and did they die in Treblinka?
Some of these questions can be answered, others–at this point at least–can only be posed. There are still people around who knew her.
Locations:
Berlin
London
Woking,
Surrey
Częstochowa
Stutthof
Grodno/Białystok
Las
Vegas
Buenos
Aires
Interviews:
Steffanie
Blake
Clint
Eastwood
Cesar
Lopez (Madrid)
Milo
Frank
Peter
Sasdy
Dani
Filth (Cradle of Filth)
Joanna Lukawska (London)
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