Hotel Terminus: The Life And Times Of Klaus Barbie

An epic examination of the Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon," Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klause Barbie premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it won the International Critics Prize, and then went on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary feature of 1988.

Weaving together forty years of footage and interviews culled from over 120 hours of filmed material with former Nazis, American Intelligence officers, South American government officials, victims of Nazi atrocities and witnesses, the making of Hotel Terminus was, in the words of its director Marcel Ophuls "an intense fight for the survival of memory itself.

Barbie, while Gestapo chief in Lyon, d and murdered resistance fighters, including Jean Moulin, Jewish men , women and children, and had thousands deported to death camps. After the war he worked with and was protected by the U.S. Army and American Intelligence officers, and then allowed to hide in Bolivia, where he lived peacefully for 30 years. Only in 1987, in large part thanks to the efforts over many years of lawyers Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, was he finally brought to trial in a French courtroom in Lyon, for crimes against humanity.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 11 mars, 2022