The Kaiser of the Atlantis
​In 1943, in a Nazi concentration camp, a group of musicians wrote an opera warning us about tyrants dragging us into war. Eighty years later, on the stage of a major European coliseum, their message resonates louder than ever. Will we heed the warning this time?
"Saraqusta" Award for Best Documentary (2022). "Saraqusta Film.
Festival. Zaragoza Film and History Series Festival (Aragon), Spain.
"Saraqusta" Award for Best Director (2022). "Saraqusta Film Festival. Zaragoza Film and History Series Festival (Aragon), Spain.
Award from the Dagmar and Václav Havel Vize 97 Foundation at the 59th Prague International Television Festival of Gold. Czech Republic.
Special Mention for Extraordinary Artistic Achievement at the 59th Prague International Television Festival of Gold. Czech Republic.
Best Feature Film - Digital Media, at the 30th FCM-PNR Madrid Film Festival (Madrid), Spain.
Best Cinematography Award - Official Section, at the 30th FCM-PNR Madrid Film Festival (Madrid), Spain.
Best Sound Award - Official Section, at the 30th FCM-PNR Madrid Film Festival (Madrid), Spain.
Best Music Award - Official Section, at the 30th FCM-PNR Madrid Film Festival (Madrid), Spain.
National Jury Special Mention, at the 2nd International Film and Musical Documentary Festival In-Edit Beefeater. Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain.
Reviews
The Kaiser of Atlantis: The incredible journey of an opera written from horror.
★★★★Helena Brillembourg, La Nación
'The Kaiser of Atlantis' is a documentary about resistance.
★★★★ Ricardo Marín. Ibero909.fm
The director also includes other testimonies, archival footage, and even animated sequences, all to give voice to Viktor Ullman and Peter Kien, who wrote this brave (and previously unknown) testimony of Nazi resistance. Both risked their lives so that we could understand the danger posed by a war criminal not being stopped in time, and now we have the opportunity to hear their voices.
★★★★Isabel Rad. whitepaperby
Sebastián Alfie, who made his debut a few years ago in the documentary field with 'Gabor,' about the collaboration between a blind cinematographer and a filmmaker, returns to the same terrain with 'The Kaiser of Atlantis,' directing his gaze at a historical figure, Viktor Ullmann, the composer responsible for the opera that gives the film its title (known as 'Der Kaiser von Atlantis'), an allegory about the madness and death prevailing during the Third Reich.
★★★★ CineMaldito, Rubén Collazos.