Leni may be more famed, but this well-made documentary reminds that Veit Harlan was equally instrumental to the Nazi's achtung propaganda. His notoriety owes largely to his then-compulsory 1940 film, Jew Süss, a brutal anti-Semitic tract set in 18th-century Germany. Director Felix Moeller looks at the fallout through his descendants, exploring how his children and grandchildren respond to such an unspeakable lineage. Guilt ghosts everything for a provocative case study of how one German family copes with its stigmatic past.
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