Der Letzte der Ungerechten
(2013)
Regisseur:
Claude LanzmannSchauspieler:
Benjamin Murmelstein, Claude LanzmannFür SHOAH filmte Claude Lanzmann 1975 in Rom mit Benjamin Murmelstein, dem einzigen überlebenden "Judenältesten". Das vielstündige Interview hätte das Konzept von SHOAH gesprengt. Diese Gespräche über seine ambivalente Rolle als unfreiwillige Führungskraft inszenierte Lanzmann jetzt mit neuen Aufnahmen aus Wien, Polen, Israel und dem "Vorzeigeghetto" Theresienstadt.
Dokumentarfilm über Rabbiner Benjamin Murmelstein, "Judenältester" im KZ Theresienstadt, vom Macher von"Shoah".
A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the "Final Solution" like never before.
A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the "Final Solution" like never before.
