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The Last of the Unjust

The Last of the Unjust

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Production year2012
The Last of the Unjust

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    1975. In Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council of Elders in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only  “Jewish elder” (according to Nazi terminology) not to have been killed during the war. A rabbi in Vienna, following the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 Murmelstein fought bitterly with Adolf Eichmann, week after week for seven years, managing to help around 121,000 Jews leave the country, and preventing the liquidation of the ghetto.
    2012. Claude Lanzmann, at 87, exhumes these interviews from Rome, returning to Theresienstadt, the town “given to the Jews by Hitler”, a so-called model ghetto, but a deceitful ghetto chosen by Eichmann to dupe the world. We discover the extraordinary personality of Benjamin Murmelstein: a man blessed with a dazzling intelligence and a certain courage which, along with an unrivaled memory, makes him a wonderfully wry, sardonic and authentic storyteller.
    Through the various periods, from Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It also reveals the true face of Eichmann, and exposes without artifice the savage contradictions of the Jewish Councils.

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    • Type : Feature film
    • Genres : Documentary
    • Sub-genre : Historical
    • Production language : German, French
    • Coproducer countries : France, Austria
    • Original French-language productions : Yes
    • Nationality : Majority French (France, Austria)
    • Production year : 2012
    • French release : 13/11/2013
    • Runtime : 3 h 38 min
    • Current status : Released
    • Visa number : 131.709
    • Visa issue date : 24/10/2013
    • Approval : Yes
    • Color type : Color
    • Aspect ratio : 1.85
    • Audio format : Dolby 5.1
    • Rating restrictions : None

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