2023 | Ireland, Germany, Spain, Australia, UK, USA | 85’ | Feature Documentary
Music score for this nightmare that started for an entire family on the 27th of December 1973. On that night, a German businessman called Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his home in Belfast. He was never seen alive again by his friends or family. He became one of the “disappeared”, and it seemed that no-one knew what had happened to him.
His wife, Ingeborg, and his daughters, Renate and Gabriele, spent the next seven years not knowing if Thomas was alive or dead. Then, in 1980, an IRA informant led police to recover his body. But the trauma did not end then: there were further devastating consequences for all of them.
Thomas and Ingeborg’s only granddaughters, Tanya and Rachel, were told nothing of this history when they were growing up. Now, 50 years after their grandfather was kidnapped,they have embarked on a painful journey of discovery – to find out the shocking truth of what really happened half-a-century ago.
World Premiere Galway Film Fleadh 2023
Director: Gerry Gregg
Writer: David Blake Knox
Producers: David Blake Knox, Kelda Crawford-McCann, Hadyn Keenan, Catherine O’Flaherty
Original Score: Giles Packham