Wundkanal

Overview

An old man is kidnapped. His interrogation uncovers the biography of a mass murderer: The 80 years old man was a SS leader and responsible for the killing of thousands of people in the Soviet Union. He also "invented" an evil technique of eliminating political prisoners: the manipulated suicide. Thomas Harlan reconstructs the history of a bureaucratic murderer, he also develops a direct connection between the Nationalsocialism and the treatment of prisoners of the RAF terrorists in the Stuttgart isolation prison. Robert Kramer filmed the shooting of Harlan's Wundkanal: Notre Nazi documents a social experiment in which the children of Nazis and of victims meet a real culprit. The reality seems to be stronger that the fiction in Harlan's film. (Edition Filmmuseum)

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 29, 1984

Original language

German

Spoken languages

French, German

Countries

Germany, France

Cast

Libgart Schwarz,Alfred Filbert,Rolf Niffuag,Peter Fitz,Wieland Kiel,Heike Geschonneck,Margit Broich,Robert Kramer

Director

Thomas Harlan

Writer

Yvette Biro,Thomas Harlan

Producer

Wieland Schulz-Keil,Thomas Harlan

Cinematography

Henri Alekan

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0090341