Summary A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the "Final Solution" like never before. View more details
Directed : Claude Lanzmann
Written : Claude Lanzmann
Stars : Claude Lanzmann Benjamin Murmelstein
Genres : History Documentary
Release date : Nov 12, 2013
Countries of origin : France Austria
Language : English German French
Filming locations : Terezín, Czech Republic
Production companies : Le Pacte Dor Film Produktionsgesellschaft Synecdoche
Summary A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the "Final Solution" like never before. View more details
Genres : History Documentary
Release date : Nov 12, 2013
Countries of origin : France Austria
Language : English German French
Filming locations : Terezín, Czech Republic
Production companies : Le Pacte Dor Film Produktionsgesellschaft Synecdoche
