THE INTERROGATION
2016, Erez Pery, Drama
2016, Erez Pery, Drama
LENGTH: 84 min
COUNTRY: Israel & Germany
YEAR: 2016
GENRE: Historical Drama
LANGUAGE: German & Polish w/ English subtitles
FORMATS: DCP, Blu-ray & DVD
DIRECTOR: Erez Pery
CAST: Romanus Fuhrmann, Maciej Marczewski, Jacek Brzoslynski, Shira Dotan
CREW: PRODUCER: Haggai Arad, Elad Peleg, Mathias Schwerbrock, SCREENWRITER: Erez Pery, Sari Turgeman CINEMATOGRAPHER: Boubkar Benzabat EDITOR: Lev Goltser SOUND DESIGN: Itzik Cohen
The Interrogation is a landmark film in which an Israeli director – for the very first time – gives voice to the perpetrator that is Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, the longstanding commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Based on the autobiography written by Höss, the film recreates the final interrogation of the infamous German before his execution.
In 1946, Höss was discovered by British troops in Gottrupel, Germany disguised as a gardener after his whereabouts were divulged by his wife, believing that the betrayal of her husband would result in their son’s safety. Shortly afterward the former Auschwitz commandant was taken to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and later handed over to the Supreme National Tribunal in Poland, which sentenced him to death by hanging.
It is during Höss’s time at the Supreme National Tribunal that he was interrogated in order to extract a perfect confession, and in which the setting of the film takes place. The interrogator assigned to Höss is Albert Piotrowski, who speaks German as a second language and is able to make progress with Höss because of this. During his time in prison before his execution, several attempts had been made on Höss’s life, which he survived. The original confession affidavit written by Rudolf Höss is displayed in a glass case at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Höss was executed on April 16th, 1947 at the very same location he commanded years earlier.
ABOUT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Commandant of Auschwitz by Rudolf Höss
Rudolf Höss’s autobiography was first published in a Polish translation in 1951 under the title Wspomnienia by Wydawnictwo Prawnicze, Warsaw. The German text was published in 1958 under the title Kommandant in Auschwitz by Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. In 1985 Primo Levi wrote an introduction to the book that was translated in English and used in the American edition of the memoirs. (courtesy Wide Management)
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