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I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal

  • 20072007
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
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Simon Wiesenthal in I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal (2007)
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A documentary on the Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi hunter after surviving the Holocaust.A documentary on the Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi hunter after surviving the Holocaust.A documentary on the Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi hunter after surviving the Holocaust.
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
700
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
145,990
525
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    • Director
      • Richard Trank
    • Writers
      • Marvin Hier
      • Richard Trank
    • Stars
      • Nicole Kidman(voice)
      • Simon Wiesenthal(archive footage)
      • Asher BenNatan
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Richard Trank
    • Writers
      • Marvin Hier
      • Richard Trank
    • Stars
      • Nicole Kidman(voice)
      • Simon Wiesenthal(archive footage)
      • Asher BenNatan
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    • 4User reviews
    • 23Critic reviews
    • 59Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 1 win

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    Nicole Kidman
    Nicole Kidman
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Simon Wiesenthal
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Asher BenNatan
    • Self
    • (as Arthur Pier)
    Frederick Forsyth
    Frederick Forsyth
    • Self
    Marvin Hier
    • Self
    Ben Kingsley
    Ben Kingsley
    • Self
    Hella Pick
    • Self - Biographer
    Cyla Wiesenthal
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Pauline Rosa Wiesenthal
    • Self
    Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Robert F. Kennedy
    Robert F. Kennedy
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Richard Trank
    • Writers
      • Marvin Hier
      • Richard Trank
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    • Trivia
      Wiesenthal became an avid stamp collector after the war, following advice from his doctors to take up a hobby to help him relax. In 2006 his collection of Zemstvo stamps sold at auction for EUR90,000 after his death.
    • Quotes

      Marvin Hier: [quoting Simon Wiesenthal] Hitler is gone, Nazis are no more. But we are still here, singing and dancing.

    • Connections
      Features NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (1970)

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    7/10
    a touching documentary, though all one needs to do is get the subject down from start to finish
    I Have Never Forgotten You, a documentary on Wiesenthal, is broken down into two parts that essentially blend together as one: the personal and professional. On the personal side of things, Wiesenthal came from a small Polish (or what was Russian and then again Polish) village, which today likely no longer exists, and after going through the loss of a father and a brother before the second world war lost everyone in his family during the holocaust. Only his wife survived, and somehow the two of them found each other again after it ended, which led to their child. But the personal side of Wiesenthal, of the anger and sadness of what was basically the more horrifying experience imaginable over the course of half a decade, soon went into the professional, and any hope he had of being an architect from his early years fell to the wayside, hence bringing out his legacy: *the* eminent Nazi-hunter of if not the world then at least Europe. By the time his later years came around- and later being his late 80s and early 90s- he was even being honored by the country he had made his place of operations, Austria, which had been a bittersweet connection.

    His is one of those truly inspiring stories of the human spirit, all cliché aside, as he was full of humility but not an unjust man in the slightest. And the cost to bear, for him anyway, was too much to bear to give up if things got ugly (and, at times, it did, with protesters even fire-bombing his home and office of operations). At the same time we're shown Wiesenthal to be a man capable of great humor; I liked the part where the woman recounts Wiesenthal as a man with a joke to tell, sometimes not always appropriately for women's ears. Little details about Wiesenthal's balancing of his family life with his constant, unwavering attention to assisting in the capture of Nazi war criminals (he called himself a "researcher" in an interview) are maybe the most compelling, the kind of little biographical bits that one might overlook in the usual biographies. Nevertheless, if there is a main flaw to the film it's that the director does put a little of the sentiment on high with the music and some calculated ways to go about telling the story (nothing PBS wouldn't do, perhaps, though it doesn't necessarily rise the documentary to great art).

    This being said, it's a very worthy testament to a man who, as Ben Kingsley noted, said all there needed to be said about what he had experienced in the gesture of his hand brushing against his face out of the burden that he faced, not even as a "hero", which Wiesenthal denies he was, but as a "survivor" which wiped out dozens of members of his closest family along with millions of others in the holocaust. In short, anyone who has an interest in what he was about would do well to see it, and even to those who contributed to the Wiesenthal group over the years may find out a thing or two not previously known.
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    • Jun 9, 2007

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    • Release date
      • March 2007 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • German
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Simon Wiesenthal Documentary
    • Production company
      • Moriah Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $29,976
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,075
      • May 28, 2007
    • Gross worldwide
      • $204,167
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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