Hotel Terminus - The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 16, 2010
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Icarus Films
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Directed by | Marcel Ophuls |
Entertainment Reviews:
...A dense and complex film....The near-universal moral vacuity revealed by the film is devastating...
Film Comment
The film shows complete respect for the viewer's intelligence....The film is unforgettable.
Sight and Sound
Included in The New York Times 10 BEST FILMS OF 1988
New York Times
...Spellbinding....A fine, serious work by a film maker unlike any other...
New York Times
...To watch HOTEL TERMINUS is like seeing a great novel come alive on the screen, for it is dense with characters, epic in scale, and it deals with the eternal conflict between good and evil...
Los Angeles Times
...You're glued to the screen for three hours....The movie is filled with intentional black-comic elements...
USA Today
Marcel Ophuls's superb, often electrifying 1988 documentary about Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie is a master class not only on the art of the interview but -- like the work of Ophuls admirer Frederick Wiseman -- on editing.
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Product Description:
This documentary traces Barbie's life from his childhood in Germany to his rise as a renowned SS interrogator and torturer known as the "Butcher of Lyon," and asks the troubling question: how did this wanted criminal escape trial for forty years' Winner--1988 Best Feature Documentary Academy Award.
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- Sales Rank: 106,621
- UPC: 854565001275
- Shipping Weight: 0.33/lbs (approx)
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