In Our Nazi, we are plunged into a situation we barely, and only slowly, understand: the filming of Thomas Harlan’s experimental feature Wundkanal (1984), in which true-life ex-SS officer Alfred Filbert, now very old, is ‘put on trial’ for the camera, without him suspecting what is to come or why he is really there. Kramer’s confronting film is an essay about the sticky complicity of everyone present at this event, each bringing their own history, their own political ideology, their own desires to take revenge, to seek redemption or compassion, or just to put their heads down and ‘get the job done’ professionally, or (in the case of Filbert) to be a star, a part of the magnificent, magical, seductive world of cinema, even if it kills him.
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Cast
13 people
Alfred Filbert
Self
Also in
Wundkanal
Henri Alekan
Self
Also in
Faraway, So Close!
Cinématon XXXIV
Robert Kramer
Known for
L'ennui
The State of Things
Thomas Harlan
Self
Also in
Red Line
Thomas Harlan – Moving Shrapnel
Yasha Aginsky
Heike Geschonneck
Self
Also in
Wundkanal
Wieland Schulz-Keil
Hertz Nativ
Hertz Nativ
Ursula Langmann
Ursula Langmann
Jimmy Glasberg
Jimmy Glasberg
Roland Allard
Roland Allard
Georges Liatard
Georges Liatard
Robert Kramer Director · Thomas Harlan Writer Henri Alekan Cinematographer
First release January 27, 1984 · Produced in France · Languages English, French, German
Production
Quasar Productions
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France
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Original title
Notre Nazi
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · French · German
Release dates
Germany · January 27, 1984
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No release date listed for United States.
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