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Thematic programmes - Am I Guilty
An old man is kidnapped. His interrogation uncovers the biography of a mass murderer: the 80 year old man was, afterall a SS leader and the responsible for the killing of thousands of people in Russia. The ex-agent was also responsable for creating a technique of eliminating political prisoners: manipulated suicide.
In Wundkanal, Thomas Harlan reconstructs the history of a bureaucratic murderer, while also developing a direct connection between the national-socialism and the treatment of prisioners of the RAF terrorists in the Stuttgart isolation prison.
The screening of this film is followed by Robert Kramer's Our Nazi, a documentary about the shooting of Wundkanal. Double session dedicated to "German guilt": the first one is born from the search for redemption from the feeling of guilt of having been born the son of Veit Harlan, director of the well-known Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süss; and the second about the alleged impossibility of Harlan in admitting guilt – in addition to his announced inability to admit that impossibility.
In Wundkanal, Thomas Harlan reconstructs the history of a bureaucratic murderer, while also developing a direct connection between the national-socialism and the treatment of prisioners of the RAF terrorists in the Stuttgart isolation prison.
The screening of this film is followed by Robert Kramer's Our Nazi, a documentary about the shooting of Wundkanal. Double session dedicated to "German guilt": the first one is born from the search for redemption from the feeling of guilt of having been born the son of Veit Harlan, director of the well-known Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süss; and the second about the alleged impossibility of Harlan in admitting guilt – in addition to his announced inability to admit that impossibility.
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Cast:
Alfred Filbert, Heike Geschonneck, Robert Kramer, Rolf Niffuag -
Original Title:
Wundkanal -
Country:
France, Germany -
Year:
1984 - 107' DE, FR, Subtitles: PT
Director
Thomas Harlan
Thomas Harlan (1929-2010) was a writer, director and producer, born in Berlin, Germany. Son of Veil Harlan, also an actor and director who became associated with anti-semitic propaganda films. Throughout his career Harlan made three films: Torre Bela (1975), Wundkanal (1984) and Remembrance (1991). All of them are films with a strong political nature, a theme that marked Harlan´s life and work, both in his cinema and his writing. Harlan was married to the writer Katrin Seybold and died on October 16, 2010, in Bavaria.
