The Commandant's Shadow | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00It feels strange being here with my father.

00:16There wasn't much conversation about Auschwitz in my family.

00:19It is a fact.

00:20My grandfather is the greatest mass murderer in human history.

00:27He was commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

00:30It was his brainchild.

00:31We had a beautiful mother and father.

00:44It freaks me a little bit when you think about just a couple of hundred yards from this joyful

00:49life.

00:50There are people being murdered.

00:53We were just a normal German family.

00:56When the lovely Mr. Hitler appears, we became an abnormal Jewish family.

01:01When I arrived in Auschwitz, there was a band that needed a cellist.

01:07We played for the guards.

01:09Absolutely saved my life.

01:11That's the fate of the chosen people.

01:13Why don't you choose somebody else for a change?

01:16What have we done?

01:19There was a fence between the horror and the normal life.

01:25Do you consider meeting the son of the commandant?

01:35The son of the commandant walking into my house.

01:43Do you hate your father now?

01:45What is your feeling?

01:49The Holocaust grows a long shadow.

01:52I think my dad subconsciously suppresses some of the experiences he's had.

02:00Do you think something like the Holocaust could happen again?

02:03I mean, look at the world now.

02:06It's time to stop stupid hatred.

02:09You can't forgive what's happened.

02:14This is going to the next stage.

02:16It's not what we've done, but what are we doing now?