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2 or 3 Things I Know About Him(2005)
Status: Released
Date: 2005-04-07
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8 Votes
Time: 1h 25m
Overview:
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)
Languages: German, Slovak.
Countries:
Czech Republic,
Germany,
South Africa
Movie: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
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What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)
Release Date
2005-04-07
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6.625
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DeutschSlovenčinaKeywords
destruction of a civilizationdaughterdeath penaltynazisense of guiltparent child relationshiploss of loved onesuppressed pastfascismss (nazi schutzstaffel)holocaust (shoah)deportationjew persecutionauschwitz-birkenau concentration campnational socialismczechoslovakiabratislava, slovakiasouth africafasciststurmabteilungantisemitismfamilyfamily feudpost warfather figurensdap (nazi party)
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