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Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss(Harlan - Im Schatten von Jud Süss)

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Germany, Finland · 2008
1h 40m
Director Felix Moeller
Starring Thomas Harlan, Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, Caspar Harlan
Genre Documentary

A biographic documentary about Veit Harlan, one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. An eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present are all contained within a look at Harlan's long life.

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Village Voice by

Stuffed with talking heads, Harlan is overlong and redundant, but its core questions are worthy.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Rather than delving deep into its subject, the film loses focus by concentrating on the feelings of Harlan's descendants rather than a deep analysis of the man himself.

75

Boston Globe by Joan Anderman

For a few years, Veit Harlan must have felt he was the right filmmaker at the right place at the right time. Did he ever stop to think that his luck also meant the doom of millions? Moeller’s documentary can’t supply an answer. It does, however, make the rest of us wonder.

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Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

The viciously anti-Semitic 1940 German movie “Jew Süss” is one of the most notorious films ever made...Today it is one of the few Nazi-era films that still cannot legally be shown.

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