The Commandant's Shadow

Name: The Commandant's Shadow
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 29, 2024
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 76

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Fathom Events | Release Date: May 29, 2024 | PG-13

Summary: The Commandant’s Shadow follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the 87-year-old son of Rudolf Höss, as he faces his father’s terrible legacy for the first time.

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 110 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jul 11, 2024

Perhaps that final meeting in Lasker-Wallfisch’s front room does not offer closure. Nothing could. An amazing and dramatic historical tableau nonetheless. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

May 28, 2024

An overpowering work of excavation and confrontation—as well as a timely and urgent warning about the continuing threat of antisemitism. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Jun 24, 2024

Both Kai and Lasker-Wallfisch’s daughter, Maya, encourage the reluctant Hans Jürgen, now a frail 87-year-old man, to confront his family’s complicity. As they push and he resists, the process is unsettling and unsatisfying for everyone. But somehow it unfolds that Anita, an extraordinary character and the film’s true heart, sees Hans Jürgen most clearly. Read full review

Tara Brady

Jul 12, 2024

Völker’s sensitive film brings together these two wounded families to sit down for tea. It’s a fascinating encounter defined by guilt and unspeakable hurt. There is no sense of absolution or cathartic breakthrough. There is only imperfect reckoning. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

May 30, 2024

Regrettably, “never again” proves to be a misguided ethos for a film about pain that’s so nakedly unresolved, both in its characters, and in a world that has learned nothing from the lessons they were born to teach it. Read full review

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