Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian
In December 1973, two members of the Provisional IRA arrived at a house in West Belfast and told the man who came to the door that their car had crashed into his. He left the house in his slippers to see what had happened, and was bundled into a waiting car. His wife and two daughters never saw him again; for seven years, they had no idea whether he was dead or alive.
The man was called Thomas Niedermayer; he was a German who had come over to Northern Ireland to run a new electronics factory in 1961. The story of his kidnapping, and the terrible impact it had on his family, is told in this gripping documentary. It’s hardly a spoiler to say that Niedermayer ended up dead: the name of the film refers to how he was buried, in an unlovely woodland used by fly-tippers…
