A year ago I read a good review about a doc that looked at the family life of Nazi Heinrich Himmler,but missed the TV airing. Recently watching the intriguing Iceland murder doc Out of Thin Ice,I found out that the Himmler film was being repeated at a decent time.
The outline of the doc:
The film is based on letters,photos and reels of film of Heinrich Himmler and his family,that were gathered shortly after he killed himself. The letters, diaries and photos go from Himmler's childhood in the build-up to WWI, the love letters and birth of his daughter Gudrun with wife Marga,and the growing loyalty and power Himmler shows and gains towards Hitler.
View on the film:
Seamlessly combining archive footage with shots of letters and photos set against classy narrations of the various family members,co- writer /(with Ori Weisbrod) director Vanessa Lapa writes a horrifying study of psychopathic behaviour,in the mundane letters the Himmler's exchange, (which includes daughter Marga writing about a family picnic at a concentration camp) revealing a complete disconnection about the horrors the Nazis (and Himmler himself) were performing for "Uncle" Hitler. Opening the psychology of evil, Lapa using graphic archive footage of contraction camp murders,feels at- odds with the in-depth psychological studying that Lapa has done,of the indecent ones:the Himmler's.
The outline of the doc:
The film is based on letters,photos and reels of film of Heinrich Himmler and his family,that were gathered shortly after he killed himself. The letters, diaries and photos go from Himmler's childhood in the build-up to WWI, the love letters and birth of his daughter Gudrun with wife Marga,and the growing loyalty and power Himmler shows and gains towards Hitler.
View on the film:
Seamlessly combining archive footage with shots of letters and photos set against classy narrations of the various family members,co- writer /(with Ori Weisbrod) director Vanessa Lapa writes a horrifying study of psychopathic behaviour,in the mundane letters the Himmler's exchange, (which includes daughter Marga writing about a family picnic at a concentration camp) revealing a complete disconnection about the horrors the Nazis (and Himmler himself) were performing for "Uncle" Hitler. Opening the psychology of evil, Lapa using graphic archive footage of contraction camp murders,feels at- odds with the in-depth psychological studying that Lapa has done,of the indecent ones:the Himmler's.