2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

Name: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
Genre: Drama
Released: January 24, 2007
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 74

2007

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National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF) | Release Date: January 24, 2007

Summary: What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whomWhat would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)… Expand

Director: Malte Ludin

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 85 min

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

German filmmaker Malte Ludin's gripping documentary about the father he barely knew is both an extraordinary exercise in family history and an example of what Germans call Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung: "facing the past," particularly the years of Hitler's Third Reich. Read full review

Noel Murray

Even though 2 Or 3 Things' central irony is blunt, Ludin's tone remains measured throughout, and never self-serving. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Some of this is elemental psychology; blood is thicker than water, etc. But the movie also reveals how the privileged class ignored, condoned or denied the reality of the Holocaust. Read full review

Kyle Smith

German guilt gets a vigorous workout in the penetrating and symbolically important documentary Two or Three Things I Know About Him. Read full review

A.O. Scott

If it tells, in Mr. Ludin’s words, "a typical German story," the movie also offers an unusually matter-of-fact picture of the private and public effects of ordinary evil. Read full review

Jim Ridley

Malte's discomforting interviews with his siblings, supplemented by surreally matter-of-fact, Zelig-like photos of Hanns in Hitler's company, make for gripping and confrontational viewing. Yet the harder he persists, the less clear it is what he wants from his family. Read full review

Eddie Cockrell

Sixty years after World War II, descendants of a prominent Nazi responsible for implementing Hitler's policies in Slovakia reignite debate over their heritage in emotional docu 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him. Read full review

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