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  • 2007
  • National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF)
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2007
  • National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF)
  • 1 h 25 m
2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

Summary What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom...

Directed By: Malte Ludin

Written By: Malte Ludin

  • 2007
  • National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF)
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2007
  • National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF)
  • 1 h 25 m

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

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Summary What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom...

Directed By: Malte Ludin

Written By: Malte Ludin

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German filmmaker Malte Ludin's gripping documentary about the father he barely knew is both an extraordinary exercise in family history and an example of what Germans call Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung: "facing the past," particularly the years of Hitler's Third Reich.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
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Some of this is elemental psychology; blood is thicker than water, etc. But the movie also reveals how the privileged class ignored, condoned or denied the reality of the Holocaust.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
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Even though 2 Or 3 Things' central irony is blunt, Ludin's tone remains measured throughout, and never self-serving.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
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German guilt gets a vigorous workout in the penetrating and symbolically important documentary Two or Three Things I Know About Him.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
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If it tells, in Mr. Ludin’s words, "a typical German story," the movie also offers an unusually matter-of-fact picture of the private and public effects of ordinary evil.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
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Malte's discomforting interviews with his siblings, supplemented by surreally matter-of-fact, Zelig-like photos of Hanns in Hitler's company, make for gripping and confrontational viewing. Yet the harder he persists, the less clear it is what he wants from his family.
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Sixty years after World War II, descendants of a prominent Nazi responsible for implementing Hitler's policies in Slovakia reignite debate over their heritage in emotional docu 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him.
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Production Company ARTE, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Filmfonds Wien, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), Medien- und Filmgesellschaft (MFG) Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR), Svarc. Film, Südwestrundfunk (SWR)
Release Date Jan 24, 2007
Duration 1 h 25 m
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Website http://www.2oder3dinge.de/
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