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The Last of the Unjust

The Last of the Unjust

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 13, 2013

Runtime

3h 39m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

69%

Original Title

Le Dernier des Injustes

Production Companies

Dor Film, Synecdoche, Le Pacte, Les Films Aleph, France 3 Cinéma

Director

Claude Lanzmann

Description

A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the "Final Solution" like never before.