Wundkanal (1984)

An old man is kidnapped. His interrogation uncovers the biography of a mass murderer: The 80 years old man was a SS leader and responsible for the killing of thousands of people in the Soviet Union. He also "invented" an evil technique of eliminating political prisoners: the manipulated suicide. Thomas Harlan reconstructs the history of a bureaucratic murderer, he also develops a direct connection between the Nationalsocialism and the treatment of prisoners of the RAF terrorists in the Stuttgart isolation prison. Robert Kramer filmed the shooting of Harlan's Wundkanal: Notre Nazi documents a social experiment in which the children of Nazis and of victims meet a real culprit. The reality seems to be stronger that the fiction in Harlan's film. (Edition Filmmuseum)

Released Aug. 29, 1984 107 min None+

Genres: Drama, War

Keywords: imdb.police, imdb.manipulated-suicide, imdb.family-relationships, imdb.nazi-war-criminal, imdb.injustice, imdb.80-year-old-man, imdb.mass-murder + 41 more, imdb.world-war-two, imdb.release-from-prison, imdb.bullet-trace, imdb.old-man, imdb.secretly-recorded, imdb.mentor-protege-relationship, imdb.murder, imdb.hearing-voices, imdb.ss, imdb.gun-pointed-at-neck, imdb.long-lost-brother, imdb.guilt, imdb.hidden-microphone, imdb.reference-to-lithuania, imdb.microphone, imdb.nazism, imdb.interrogation, imdb.reference-to-adolf-hitler, imdb.gun, imdb.death-of-brother, imdb.return-home, imdb.reference-to-russia, imdb.liquidating-civilians, imdb.80-year-old, imdb.reference-to-the-nazi-secret-service, imdb.reference-to-white-russia, imdb.dying-in-a-concentration-camp, imdb.shot-in-the-head, imdb.shot-in-the-neck, imdb.reference-to-buchenwald-concentration-camp, imdb.radical-terrorist, imdb.post-world-war-two, imdb.gun-pointed-at-head, imdb.reference-to-the-eastern-front, imdb.brother-brother-relationship, imdb.atrocity, imdb.disappointment, imdb.clearing-one-s-conscience, imdb.kidnapping, imdb.release-from-prison-due-to-old-age, imdb.bitterness