Le Dernier des injustes (2013)
Directed by Claude Lanzmann

Documentary
aka: The Last of the Unjust

Film Synopsis

In Rome in 1975, the director Claude Lanzmann filmed Benjamin Murmelstein, the last leader of the Jewish ghetto of Theresienstadt.  In 1938, after Germany had annexed Austria, Murmelstein began his fight against Adolf Eichmann, and over the next seven years he managed to save 121 thousand Jews from the Holocaust.  In 2012, Lanzmann, now 87, returns to Theresienstadt, the model ghetto given by Hitler to the Jews to deceive the world...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Claude Lanzmann
  • Script: Claude Lanzmann
  • Cinematographer: Caroline Champetier, William Lubtchansky
  • Cast: Benjamin Murmelstein (Himself), Claude Lanzmann (Himself)
  • Country: France / Austria
  • Language: German / French / English
  • Support: Black and White / Color
  • Runtime: 220 min
  • Aka: The Last of the Unjust

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