An old man is kidnapped. His interrogation uncovers the biography of a mass murderer: The 80 years old man was a SS leader and responsible for the killing of thousands of people in Russia. He also "invented" an evil technique of eliminating political prisoners: the manipulated suicide. Thomas Harlan reconstructs the history of a bureaucratic murderer, he also develops a direct connection between the Nationalsocialism and the treatment of prisoners of the RAF terrorists in the Stuttgart isolation prison. Robert Kramer filmed the shooting of Harlan's Wundkanal: Notre Nazi documents a social experiment in which the children of Nazis and of victims meet a real culprit. The reality seems to be stronger that the fiction in Harlan's film. (Edition Filmmuseum)
Released: Aug 29, 1984
Runtime: 107 minutes
Genre: Drama
Stars: Alfred Filbert, Heike Geschonneck, Robert Kramer, Rolf Niffuag, Libgart Schwarz, Peter Fitz
Crew: Thomas Harlan (Director), Yvette Biro (Writer), Henri Alekan (Director of Photography), Thomas Harlan (Producer), Patricia Mazuy (Editor), Sheherazade Saadi (Editor)