Final Account (PG-13)
synopsis
FINAL ACCOUNT is an urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians in never-before-seen interviews reckon with - in very different ways - their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.
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Documentary
1 hr. 30 min.
Opened May 21st, 2021
MovieGoer Review
Final Account may ultimately be more important for the voices it immortalizes than for its worth as a conventional documentary. The film's mission is simple: seek out as many ex-Nazi survivors as could be found at the time of the production... MORE
synopsis
FINAL ACCOUNT is an urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians in never-before-seen interviews reckon with - in very different ways - their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.
details
Documentary
1 hr. 30 min.
Opened May 21st, 2021
MovieGoer Review
Final Account may ultimately be more important for the voices it immortalizes than for its worth as a conventional documentary. The film's mission is simple: seek out as many ex-Nazi survivors as could be found at the time of the production... MORE