The Unknown Soldier

Name: The Unknown Soldier
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 7, 2007
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 71

2007

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First Run Features | Release Date: September 7, 2007

Summary: The Wehrmacht-Exhibition, which was shown in eleven major cities in Germany between 1999 and 2004 and was visited by more than 500,000 attendants, challenged ordinary Germans to rethink what their fathers and grandfathers did during the war. Whereas most had been led to believe that the cold-blooded murder of civilians had been a crime of aThe Wehrmacht-Exhibition, which was shown in eleven major cities in Germany between 1999 and 2004 and was visited by more than 500,000 attendants, challenged ordinary Germans to rethink what their fathers and grandfathers did during the war. Whereas most had been led to believe that the cold-blooded murder of civilians had been a crime of a minority of officers, for the first time Germans saw photos and footage of ordinary soldiers gleefully tormenting and executing civilians on the Eastern front. The nation was shaken, and large protests were organized by those who believed the evidence was manufactured. (First Run Features)
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Director: Michael Verhoeven

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 97 min

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Ella Taylor

Superb documentary. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

The cumulative evidence that genocide could not have occurred without the cooperation of the German army is overwhelming. Read full review

Mark Olsen

Where Verhoeven loses his way is when he allows himself to sink into a seemingly endless recounting of atrocities, getting away from the main moral and philosophical questions his film brings up so provocatively. Read full review

A.O. Scott

The reckoning with the past, which has occupied West German society since the 1960s, has been painful and divisive, which makes the calm, empirical spirit of this film all the more impressive. Read full review

Phil Hall

It is a painful but important subject, to be certain, but the film dilutes its own effectiveness by devolving into a collection of talking heads who often seem to be repeating each other. Read full review

Julia Wallace

The film eventually becomes one long therapy session for the German nation as it struggles to understand how its brave and good soldiers could have done such bad, bad things. We, the viewers, are forced to take on the uncomfortable role of therapist. Read full review

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yobritto

Aug 11, 2013

I think we should have dropped the bomb on Germany and totally destroyed them, they have twice done this and we should have just totally destroyed them, Instead of Japan.

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