After the Truth
by Roland Susso Richter
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Goetz George and Kai WiesingerDirector: Roland Susso Richter
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Ignatius Press
Movie Reviews of After the Truth
Movie Review: What is Truth?
Summary: 4 Stars
A dangerous trip into story telling commences when an American couple wonder: What if the "Beast of Belsen", Josef Mengele, PhD, MD had not died in South America in the seventees but had chosen to return to Germany now. They sell their story to a German group. Eventually, After the Truth emerges from nervous Germany to acclaim as well as condemnation. Focusing on the end of a career of perhaps the most dishonored physician on the world's stage required courage to produce. A believable plot as well as very competent actors were also needed.
That having been achieved, the viewer is left in an unexpected quandry: whose truth will you accept in this day of 'your truth and my truth' relativism? It turns out that Doctor
Mengele was way ahead of his time. He had no problem with the Jews nor was he a Nazi, really.
He was just a misunderstood scientist who found himself able to do good in a bad situation. So what's the problem? Go and find out.
Curious photographic focus problems will not spoil your viewing.
Summary of After the Truth
This powerful, award-winning German film tells the story of one of the greatest challenges the legal system has ever faced. Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Angel of Death in Auschwitz, and one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals, turns himself in after 30 years in hiding to tell his truth to the world. Thus ensues a battle between conscience and evil... After the Truth presents us with Mengeles hypothetical trial, which forces us to review his guilt, especially in the context of the wider attitudes towards the dignity of human life in German society. The responsibility of our sense of right and wrong is mirrored in the film by attorney Peter Rohm, whose idealistic belief in the legal system conflicts heavily with his emotional resistance to defending such a monster. The viewer is presented with Josef Mengele the man, flesh and blood, and must hear him out as he quite emotionally yet rationally states the reasons for his work, and his supposed mercy that he imposed on his patients. At the very least the viewer must consider the man, monster or not, and his motives.
German with English and Spanish subtitles.
Winner of the 2000 Brussells International Film Festival for Best Actor (Gotz George)
Winner of the 2000 Aubagne International Film Festival for Best Director and Jury Prize
Winner of the 2000 Valenciennes International Film Festival for Jury Prize
SPECIAL FEATURES: 16 page booklet by Christopher and Kathleen Riley, the screenwriters of After the Truth, and directors of the Act One writing program DVD audio commentary track by screenwriters Christopher and Kathleen Riley.
Reviews
Utterly engrossing, provocative and impeccably acted.
Detroit Free Press
Courageous and smart. High octane.
Rolling Stone
A gripping and often surprising moving slice of entertainment.
Variety
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