Movie
Who Killed Walter Benjamin…
2005 · 73 min
A quiet, scholarly inquiry that drifts through a border village, piecing together fragments of an enigmatic death with melancholy patience.
- Directed by
- David Mauas
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Starring
- Juan Ramón Capella, Félix de Azúa, Stéphane Hessel
- Tagline
- … not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime.
- Overview
- Philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a German Jew, flees Germany in 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf Hitler's definitive rise to power. On September 26, 1940, he dies in Portbou, a small village on the French-Spanish border. The unexplained end of a man who managed to avoid a horrible fate just to face death in very mysterious circumstances.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Death, memory, isolation, fate
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- David Mauas
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Starring
- Juan Ramón Capella, Félix de Azúa, Stéphane Hessel