In 1993 Hans Christoph Blumenberg’s book 'Life Goes On' was published in Germany. It told the absurd yet compelling story of the last, epic propaganda film of the Third Reich, which went into production in Winter 1944: The film 'Life Goes On' - planned to reawaken the Nazi dream of final victory.

The producer Carl Schmitt has worked for nearly a decade to put this story on screen.

'Life Goes On' was shot between 1944 and 1945 but was never finished. The footage has been missing since the end of the war, an obvious problem for any documentary maker - as no clips from the original film could be shown. As the number of living witnesses available for interviews decreases every year, a documentary on the subject seemed ever more improbable. However, in 1998 Carl Schmitt and his long time collaborator, the English director Mark Cairns, began to develop a script and visual style suitable for such a documentary.

Two years later the German broadcaster HR finally gave the production a green light. The film is now completed and had its first showing in autumn 2002 on the French/German culture channel ARTE.