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Sponsored by Leslee &
David Magidson and co-sponsored by Sallyjo &H. Barry Levine
 A Special Director’s Selection
2006,
85 minutes, German and Slovak, English subtitles, Color, Germany
“...filled with
family secrets . . . lacerating and unsparing...”
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2 p.m. |
Wed, May 7 |
What
was life really like in a Nazi family?
Logan Hill of New York magazine says, “Documentary films about filmmakers’
bad fathers are a dime a dozen—but this one trumps them all
“Hans Ludin was a Nazi leader of the SA and a Third Reich officer in charge
of Slovakia. His son Malte Ludin does a disturbing, often bemusing job of
reminding us how difficult it can be to know one’s father, particularly if
he was executed for war crimes in 1947.”
Richard Brody of The New Yorker concurs: “The revelations are shocking. The
filmmaker doesn’t shrink from debating heatedly with his sisters onscreen or
exposing them to their children as liars.”
And Jay Carr of amNY : “As the agonized and agonizing confrontations
proceed, and rationale after rationale is demolished, no Ludin (or others
like them) can hide inconvenient moral myopia regarding their bloodstained
history.”
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