Skip to content
awatchfun
Sign in
Movie, 1988

Die Lüge und der Tod

34 min, Documentary, TV Movie, East Germany

Together with Stephan Hermlin, H&S examine two five-minute film documents in this film, which were shot in 1941 on behalf of the Gestapo. The comparison with a written eyewitness account exposes the first film - "about the dazzling supply of food to the Jews" - as a propaganda lie, while the second - made 14 days later - conveys a complex picture of the Nazi extermination bureaucracy.

Details

DirectorGerhard Scheumann, Stephan Hermlin, Walter Heynowski
WritersGerhard Scheumann, Stephan Hermlin, Walter Heynowski
GenreDocumentary, TV Movie
Runtime34 min
ReleasedThu, Nov 17, 1988
CountryEast Germany

More like this