Final Account
A simple, unadorned study of everyday evil, one which balances eyewitness accounts with archive footage.
Final Account
FINAL ACCOUNT is an urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians in never-before-seen interviews reckon with – in very different ways – their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.
Genre
Documentary,
History,
War,
Fascism
Web Site
Runtime
94
Language
English
Director
Luke Holland
FEATURED REVIEW
Chris Barsanti, Slant Magazine
Luke Holland’s stark and revealing Final Account is a gift of memory to future generations, though it’s one that some will likely view as an unwelcome reminder of how everyday people can become complicit in incomprehensible evil. A filmmaker who discovered late in life that not only was he Jewish ...
Played at
Claremont 5 5.21.21 - 6.03.21
Playhouse 7 5.21.21 - 6.03.21
Town Center 5 5.21.21 - 6.03.21
Newhall 5.21.21 - 6.03.21
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