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73 min 2005 IMDb 6.0

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Who Killed Walter Benjamin


Documentary, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee
Director David Mauas
Status Released
Release Date 2005-10-06

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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.

"
 not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime."

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