Director's Note

With my reinterpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, I want to build a bridge between classic Gothic horror and the message of a repressed European past. The short film is set in the German Empire of the 19th century, at a time when revolutionaries were striving for freedom and equality, while the dukes wanted to preserve the status quo.

The main character in our story, the overseas merchants son, believes he can erase the past by killing his father's serf, but it is precisely this act that makes the serf the last witness to his own transgression, the urge to erase memory.