
Together with Stephan Hermlin, H&S examine two five-minute film documents in this film, which were shot in 1941 on behalf of the Gestapo. The comparison with a written eyewitness account exposes the first film - "about the dazzling supply of food to the Jews" - as a propaganda lie, while the second - made 14 days later - conveys a complex picture of the Nazi extermination bureaucracy.
Die Lüge und der Tod was directed by Walter Heynowski, Stephan Hermlin and Gerhard Scheumann.
Die Lüge und der Tod runs for 34min, and was released in 1988.
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