In Search of Memory(Auf der Suche nach dem Gedächtnis)

Boston Globe by

There are many indicators of star power. Not the least of them is unforgettability. On screen, no less than in the laboratory, Eric Kandel has star power.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

It is an engrossing portrait all the same, a generous introduction to someone worth knowing, who knows an awful lot.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

When Kandel revisits his childhood neighborhoods in Vienna and Brooklyn and ruminates in his sprightly way on the past, the full measure of his humanity comes through.

Variety by Ronnie Scheib

Petra Seeger's beautifully crafted documentary about neurobiologist Eric Kandel, In Search of Memory, interweaves experience and experiments, autobiography and science as seamlessly as the Nobel Prize winner's same-titled book.

Time Out by Stephen Garrett

This reverential, sentimental and occasionally bittersweet film only erratically illuminates his (Eric Kandel) ideas. Rather, Petra Seeger prefers to honor Kandel’s boyhood remembrances as a Jew in Nazi-era Vienna.