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- 2012
- Not Rated
- Film Movement
- 59 m
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Film Movement
- 59 m
Summary Chanoch Ze'evi's documentary examines the lives of the descendants of the top Nazi high commanders who worked under Hitler's command.
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Film Movement
- 59 m
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Film Movement
- 59 m
Hitler's Children
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Summary Chanoch Ze'evi's documentary examines the lives of the descendants of the top Nazi high commanders who worked under Hitler's command.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
69
67% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Few will be unmoved by this film's subjects, including the great niece of Herman Goering and the daughter of concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth, as they relate the heavy burdens stemming from their fateful lineage.
Quiet, simple and soaked in sorrow, Hitler's Children takes a stripped-down approach to an emotionally sophisticated subject.
Interweaving interviews and footage of Rainer Hess's first trip to Auschwitz, Hitler's Children is a powerful and well-judged presentation of the stories and their impossibilities.
The subjects of Hitler's Children all speak about the actions of their infamous forebears with shame, shock, or disgust, but they also make it clear this isn't true of everyone in their families.
Though Ze'evi's creative choices don't always serve the material — he unwisely attempts to pump up the emotional volume with an intrusive music score — his compassion for his subjects is clear, and their straightforward testimony is provocative.
The film drains its subjects of the shame forced on them by Nazi ancestors and yet has difficulty arriving at an effective, constructive thesis.
It's always dispiriting to see an ideal subject given shallow treatment, and one spends most of this documentary wishing a more experienced director had made it.
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Production Company
Maya Productions,
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR),
Reshet TV,
Saxonia Entertainment,
Südwestrundfunk (SWR),
Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR),
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Release Date Nov 16, 2012
Duration 59 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
White Sands International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Warsaw International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination