The Commandant's Shadow
His father murdered more than a million Jews at Auschwitz. She survived the camp against all odds. 80 years later, they come face to face.
While Hans Jurgen Höss enjoyed a happy childhood in the family villa at Auschwitz, Jewish prisoner Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was trying to survive the notorious concentration camp. At the heart of this film is the historic and inspiring moment – eight decades later – when the two come face-to-face. This is the first time the descendant of a major war criminal meets a survivor in such a private and intimate setting, Anita’s London living room. Together with their children, Kai Höss and Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, the four protagonists explore their very different hereditary burdens.
- 7.1
- 2024
- Released
- 1h 43m
Hans-Jürgen Höss
SelfKai Höss
Self
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
SelfMaya Lasker-Wallfisch
SelfRudolf Höss
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Released
en
- #war buddies
- #documentary film
- #testimony
- #biographical documentary
- #intimate testimonies
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To be honest, I was a little disappointed with this documentary. Occasionally using some truly gruesome archive footage, we are introduced to Hans Höss, the son of the the man who not just commanded the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, but who was largely instrumental in creating the complex in the first place. Loosely using a narration from the autobiography he wrote whilst awaitin