Die Lüge und der Tod (1988)
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.
Directors: Gerhard Scheumann, Stephan Hermlin, Walter Heynowski.
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Stephan Hermlin as Narrator (voice) |
| Directing | Gerhard Scheumann | Director |
| Editing | Ilse Radtke | Editor |
| Writing | Gerhard Scheumann | Writer |
| Directing | Stephan Hermlin | Director |
| Writing | Stephan Hermlin | Writer |
| Directing | Walter Heynowski | Director |
| Writing | Walter Heynowski | Writer |
| Editing | Traute Wischnewski | Editor |
| Crew | Horst Donth | Cinematography |
| Crew | Walter Martsch | Cinematography |