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Who Killed Walter Benjamin… (2005)

Who Killed Walter Benjamin… (2005)

History Documentary

… not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime.

Release Date: 2005, October 6
Directors: David Mauas
Countries: Spain, Netherlands
Production: Milagros Producciones, Medianimación, TV3, Nik Media
Cast: Gary Smith, Dani Karavan, Félix de Azúa, Stéphane Hessel, Juan Ramón Capella, Stéphane Mosès, Rolf Tiedemann, Patrick von zur Mühlen, Bernd Witte, Erdmut Wizisla

Overview:

Philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a German Jew, flees Germany in 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf Hitler's definitive rise to power. On September 26, 1940, he dies in Portbou, a small village on the French-Spanish border. The unexplained end of a man who managed to avoid a horrible fate just to face death in very mysterious circumstances.