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The Decent One

Original title: Der Anständige
  • 20142014
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 34m
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The Decent One (2014)
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A documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS-leader Heinrich Himmler.A documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS-leader Heinrich Himmler.A documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS-leader Heinrich Himmler.
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
673
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
97,899
1,876
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    • Director
      • Vanessa Lapa
    • Writers
      • Vanessa Lapa
      • Ori Weisbrod
    • Stars
      • Tobias Moretti(voice)
      • Sophie Rois(voice)
      • Antonia Moretti(voice)
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Vanessa Lapa
    • Writers
      • Vanessa Lapa
      • Ori Weisbrod
    • Stars
      • Tobias Moretti(voice)
      • Sophie Rois(voice)
      • Antonia Moretti(voice)
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    • 13User reviews
    • 43Critic reviews
    • 55Metascore
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations

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    Tobias Moretti
    Tobias Moretti
    • Heinrich Himmler
    • (voice)
    Sophie Rois
    Sophie Rois
    • Marga Himmler
    • (voice)
    Antonia Moretti
    • Gudrun Himmler
    • (voice)
    Lotte Ledl
    Lotte Ledl
    • Hedwig Potthast
    • (voice)
    Florentin Groll
    • Gehbard Himmler
    • (voice)
    Pauline Knof
    • Anna Himmler
    • (voice)
    Lenz Moretti
    • Young Heinrich Himmler
    • (voice)
    Martin Lalis
      Alexander Riemann
        Markus Riexinge
          Florian Wandel
            Thomas Zerck
              Rudolf Gorsleben
              • Ariosophist
              • (archive footage)
              Hermann Göring
              Hermann Göring
              • Self
              • (archive footage)
              Gudrun Himmler
              • Self
              • (archive footage)
              Heinrich Himmler
              Heinrich Himmler
              • Self
              • (archive footage)
              Margarethe Himmler
              • Self
              • (archive footage)
              Adolf Hitler
              Adolf Hitler
              • Self
              • (archive footage)
              • Director
                • Vanessa Lapa
              • Writers
                • Vanessa Lapa
                • Ori Weisbrod
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              8/10
              Portrait of a successful psychopath.
              In order to be really monstrous, evil people need good qualities. Being psychopathic will only get you so far. But,combine a psychopathic personality with a twisted moral compass, a functional but shallow intelligence, and the ability to work at a given task ceaselessly, and you have a Heinrich Himmler.

              Himmler was a socially awkward young man. These days we would probably call him a nerd. Through his self studies, he converted to that hotch-potch of false science and false history, which later crystalised into Hitlerian Fascism.

              He saw Germany as a once great country, which had become degenerate. He wanted to return to this mythic past, and, like Hitler, thought that progress required an increasing population, destroying populations to the East, and taking over their territory. He and Hitler made a diabolical double act.

              The Nazis held themselves to be racially superior, and held that inferior races, while appearing human, were lower than animals because they had the capacity to corrupt higher races, both culturally and genetically. The lower races were like a disease which had to be eradicated. For a while, if they were useful, these peoples could be enslaved, but they would not be allowed to reproduce.

              Himmler was an idealist, who wanted a better world for himself, his family, and his countrymen to live in. He was also a mass murderer with an evil ideology. That conflict is the subject of this excellent documentary.
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              • Release date
                • September 18, 2014 (Germany)
              • Countries of origin
                • Austria
                • Israel
                • Germany
              • Languages
                • English
                • German
              • Also known as
                • Slusny clovek
              • Filming locations
                • Potsdamer Platz, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
              • Production companies
                • Felix Breisach Medienwerkstatt
                • Realworks
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              • Gross US & Canada
                • $21,327
              • Gross worldwide
                • $35,282
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              • Runtime
                1 hour 34 minutes
              • Color
                • Black and White
                • Color
              • Sound mix
                • Dolby Digital

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