On 6 May 1945, soldiers of the 88th US Infantry Division occupied the Himmlers’ family home in Gmund on Lake Tegernsee where they discovered hundreds of private letters, documents, journals and photographs. The film makes use of these materials and copious archive footage to sketch the biography of SS commander Heinrich Himmler who committed suicide at the end of May 1945 by taking a cyanide capsule. How did this nationalistic lower-middle-class man become Hitler’s henchman responsible for developing and executing the strategies that led to the murder of millions of Jews, homosexuals, Communists and Romany people? Where did his ideology originate? How did he see himself and how was he perceived in private by his wife Margarete, his daughter Gudrun and his mistress Hedwig? How could the man who often referred to so-called German virtues such as order, decency and goodness also write home in the midst of the war and Holocaust: ‘I am well in spite of my heavy workload’? What was it that caused his daughter to say after a visit to Dachau concentration camp: ‘It was lovely …’ A film about the pretensions of a mass murderer and the repression of any sense of guilt. Berlinale 2014
演员:詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊 杰西卡·查斯坦 比尔·斯卡斯加德 比尔·哈德尔 索菲娅·莉莉丝 杰克·迪伦·格雷泽 菲恩·伍法德 杰登·马泰尔 特洛伊·詹姆斯 哈维尔·博泰特 杰·瑞恩 斯蒂芬·金 杰克逊·罗伯特·斯科特 杰里米·雷·泰勒 泽维尔·多兰 杰克·威利 尼古拉斯·汉密尔顿 杰丝·威克斯勒 詹姆斯·兰索恩 瓦耶特·奥莱夫 欧文·泰格 艾赛亚·穆斯塔法 安迪·比恩 蒂奇·格兰特 泰勒·弗雷 贾森·福克斯 乔森·雅各布 斯蒂夫·博加尔特 洛根·汤普森 杰克·辛 维尔·贝布林克 安东尼·尤埃西
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