SCREENINGS
Washington Jewish Film Festival (2010)
Minnesota Film Arts (2009)
Stockholm Jewish Film Festival
(2009)
Toronto
Jewish Film Society (2008)
Detroit
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Facets
Cinematheque, Chicago (2008)
Toronto
Jewish Film Society (2008)
Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston (2007)
Goethe Institute, Washington DC (2007)
Philadelphia
Holocaust Film Series (2007)
National
Center for Jewish Film Annual Jewish Film Festival (2007)
US PREMIERE Film Forum (2007)
Bergen International Film Festival (2005)
International
Film Festival Bratislava (2005)
Haifa International Film Festival (2005)
WORLD
PREMIERE Berlin Film Festival (2005
Family drama
and historical truth collide in this film about the painful legacy cast
by Hanns Ludin, a prominent Nazi executed for war crimes in 1947. In this
astonishing documentary, Hanns Ludin’s son, filmmaker Malte Ludin,
breaks 60 years of silence and repression, investigating his father’s
dark deeds and interviewing his still-denying sisters.
The film
is an intimate look at the descendants of a Nazi perpetrator, most of
whom refuse to accept the history of their family and of Nazi Germany
more generally.
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CRITICAL
ACCLAIM
"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.”
-A. O. Scott, New York Times
“(Ludin’s)
film courageously probes the effect of this legacy, and the revelations
are shocking…[he] doesn’t shrink from debating heatedly with
his sisters onscreen or exposing them to their children as liars.
- Richard Brody, New Yorker
“A tattered
family album of a documentary…2
or 3 Things can't reconcile Daddy's kind moon face with
the Nazi regalia on his collar:
His large hands, remembered so fondly by one daughter, signed deportment
papers that dispatched other children's daddies to their deaths…gripping
and confrontational viewing.
-Jim Ridley, Village Voice
“This
exceptional documentary…is an illumination of convenient rationalization
and denial on a grand scale….A must-see for those always eager for
more insight into the Nazi era, is also a cautionary tale about the power
of denial and of evil that can be practiced by both the banal bureaucrat
and the seemingly more refined bourgeois who should know better.”
-Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal
“Without
exaggeration–one of this year’s most important German films…a
new quality in the cinematic treatment of National Socialism.”
- Peter Paul Huth, ZDF (German TV)
“(4
Stars Editors' Pick): A bold struggle with the past and the silent present….In
an era of shifting history and all-too-easily deniable facts, it's incumbent
upon great films like Ludin's to share that viewpoint.
- Ken Fox, TV Guide
EXTERNAL
LINKS
New
York Times Review by A.O. Scott: "Our
Father, the Nazi Zealot: A Family Grapples With Its Burdens and Blind
Spots" (01/24/07)
Jewish
Week article: "My
Dad, The War Criminal" (01/19/07)
Official
film site:
www.2oder3dinge.de
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