Who Killed Walter Benjamin... ( Quién mató a Walter Benjamin... ) ( Who Killed Walter Benjamin )

Who Killed Walter Benjamin... (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Quién mató a Walter Benjamin...
Alternate Title: Who Killed Walter Benjamin
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
73 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
David Mauas

Written By:
Joan Ripollés
David Mauas

Actors:
Juan Ramón Capella ..... Himself
Félix de Azúa ..... Himself
Stephane Hessel ..... Himself
Dani Karavan ..... Himself
Stéphane Mosès ..... Himself
Gary Smith ..... Himself
Rolf Tiedemann ..... Himself
Patrick von zur Mühlen ..... Himself
Bernd Witte ..... Himself
Erdmut Wizisla ..... Himself

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***Audio - mix of Spanish, English, German, Hebrew and French***Subtitles: English & Spanish***In September 1940, after seven years of exile, Walter Benjamin crosses the Pyrenees in a desperate attempt to escape the Nazis. According to the official version, Walter Benjamin did make it across the French-Spanish border successfully. But when he arrived in the Catalan town of Portbou, a sudden change in legislation impeded his entry into Spain and he was obliged to spend the night at a local hotel under the close vigilance of three guards, whose orders were to deport him the following morning. In utter despair, Benjamin took his own life, swallowing an overdose of morphine. The local doctor, however, declared it a natural death and Benjamin was given a Catholic burial in the municipal cemetery, under a wrong name. Did the doctor conceal some hidden cause of Benjamin's death? Was there really a change of legislation? Was Walter Benjamin aware that Portbou was a pro-Franco town virtually occupied by the Nazis? Who Killed Walter Benjamin... reaches for answers among the suspicious circumstances of his death. Giving at the same time, a portrait of a frontier town anchored between two fronts, constant witness of evasion, persecution and false hopes. Who Killed Walter Benjamin... not just a reconstruction of a death but the living portrait of the scene of the crime.

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