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2021
PG-13
Focus Features
1 h 34 m

2021
PG-13
Focus Features
1 h 34 m

Summary Final Account is an urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS me...

Documentary

Directed By: Luke Holland

2021
PG-13
Focus Features
1 h 34 m

2021
PG-13
Focus Features
1 h 34 m

Final Account

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews

76

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings

7.6

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Summary Final Account is an urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS me...

Documentary

Directed By: Luke Holland

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews

88% Positive
15 Reviews

12% Mixed
2 Reviews

0% Negative
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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews

88% Positive
15 Reviews

12% Mixed
2 Reviews

0% Negative
0 Reviews

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Positive Reviews
Mixed Reviews
Negative Reviews

The Irish Times

Dec 3, 2021

This is a vital companion piece to Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and it ends with a chilling coda.

By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW

May 21, 2021

The Holocaust is one of the most exhaustively documented events in history, yet it can seemingly never be documented enough. This is not only due to the relentless persistence of antisemites and fascist sympathizers in trying to sow doubt as to its veracity, but because many more seemingly benign parties have managed to distance themselves from fascism’s warning to the West, and the world.

By Eli Friedberg FULL REVIEW

May 20, 2021

An oral history of a once-broken, brainwashed nation, Final Account is the end result of Holland’s efforts to collect testimonies on the unthinkable before those who were there are gone.

By David Fear FULL REVIEW

Austin Chronicle

May 20, 2021

Final Account is about today as much as yesterday, and that makes it perhaps the most urgent World War II documentary of them all.

By Matthew Monagle FULL REVIEW

May 18, 2021

If Final Account has a shortcoming, it’s that few moments stick out as most chilling of all.

By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

May 20, 2021

The hateful stance that property is more valuable than certain people’s lives, for example, is still very much with us. And Final Account demonstrates that it takes all levels of cooperation—including the most passive—for tyranny to thrive.

By Sharon Knolle FULL REVIEW

Sep 15, 2020

Clocking in at a swift 90 minutes, Final Account is like a teenager-friendly approach to “Shoah,” designed as an introduction to issues of responsibility, guilt and the banality of man’s inhumanity to man.

By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW

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User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings

80% Positive
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20% Mixed
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Details

Production Company Participant, Passion Pictures, Ventureland, ZEF Productions

Release Date May 21, 2021

Duration 1 h 34 m

Rating PG-13

Genres

Documentary

Website https://www.focusfeatures.com/final-account

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Awards

Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

• 2 Nominations

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