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A few minutes into Johannes Grenzfurthner’s “Solvent,” we are privy to a dilapidated Austrian farmhouse belonging to one Wolfgang Zinggl, who disappeared at the age of 94 under mysterious circumstances. This mission to overturn the abandoned house for clues is presented as a faux-documentary shot by combat veteran Gunner S. Holbrook, who specializes in “tracking hidden and potentially fragile goods.”

However, the unblemished truth about Zinggl’s life is laid bare as Holbrook and his team comb through the mountains of old furniture, documents, memorabilia, and knick-knacks sprawled throughout the crumbling, lived-in space. As Zinggl’s grandson, Ernst Bartholdi (Grenzfurthner), and Polish academic historian, Krystyna (Aleksandra Cwen) explain, the old man used to be a high-ranking Nazi who was stationed at the Chełmno extermination camp, and actively helped engineer the horrors that unfolded there. Something about the farmhouse, framed as a disintegrating edifice that solidifies the horrific nature of Zinggl’s past,...