A devastating, monumental work by Marcel Ophuls. Tracing the life of Klaus Barbie, the infamous "butcher of Lyon," Ophuls dissects the facts that led up to this Nazi's nearly forty years as a free man through interviews with citizens of Lyon, French resistance leaders, politicians, ex-CIC (CIA) operatives as well as with several of Barbie's victims. The film addresses not only Barbie's horrendous war crimes, but questions both French and American collusion during and after WWII (and the onset of the cold war). From France to Washington DC to South America, Ophuls travels the globe peeling back the mysteries of what allowed Barbie to live on for so many years after the war. It's a sad, sometimes horrifying account. Monumental, but NEVER slow. There are appearances by Lucie & Raymond Aubrac as well as famed "Nazi Hunter" Beate Klarsfeld. Ophuls also gets insight from writer Günter Grass, filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, and many, many others. In French, German, English and Spanish.
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