The film drains its subjects of the shame forced on them by Nazi ancestors and yet has difficulty arriving at an effective, constructive thesis.
Hitler's Children
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Israel, Germany · 2011
1h 23m
Director Chanoch Ze'evi
Starring Bettina Göring, Katrin Himmler, Monika Hertwig, Rainer Höss
Genre Documentary, History, War
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Interviewing descendants of the most prominent figures and notorious war criminals under Hitler’s Nazi regime, this documentary follows the people whose surname alone evokes horror. Katrin Himmler, Rainer Höss, Niklas Frank and others reflect on their ancestors’ crimes as well as the guilt and responsibility that they now carry in their day to day lives.
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What are critics saying?
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
It's always dispiriting to see an ideal subject given shallow treatment, and one spends most of this documentary wishing a more experienced director had made it.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Few will be unmoved by this film's subjects, including the great niece of Herman Goering and the daughter of concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth, as they relate the heavy burdens stemming from their fateful lineage.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Quiet, simple and soaked in sorrow, Hitler's Children takes a stripped-down approach to an emotionally sophisticated subject.
The moral weight of Hitler's Children is unmistakable. So is that weight's inertness.
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