Henker - Der Tod hat ein Gesicht (2002) User Reviews

a very interesting but also difficult subject to make a documentary about

[ChristianDzubiel · 6/10 · 9 December 2002]

I have seen this movie nearly one year ago and i was very interested how the subject (What is going on in the mind of a "Henker" and how does he deal with it) was treated. But as intense as the interviews with these men are, the documentary never really achives it to dig deeper beyond the surface of the strange and morbid fascination of the unique profession these men have. That might be a problem of the interviewed men themself, because they seem to never let the questions be to intimate and they prefer to talk in a rather "technical" way about their work. However, this movie is worth watching and is quite well photographed and edited, but it fails in showing the real inside of the "Henker". In the end, the documentary can be seen as a impressive statement against the death-punishment.