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International Festival of Audiovisual Programs

La Traque des Nazis

Hunting Down the Nazis

A homage to the men and women who, like Simon Wiesenthal, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, have devoted their lives to hunting down former Nazis. Using archive footage, it starts with images showing German civilians being forced by the Allies to bury the victims of one of the last massacres of deportees, in May 1945. Simon Wiesenthal is generally known for tracking down Adolf Eichmann, the engineer of the Final Solution, who was arrested in South America. The Klarsfeld found Hagen, Lischka, Heinrichson, Gestapo chiefs in Paris as well as Barbie, the head of the Gestapo in Lyon. Beate Klarsfeld publicly slapped German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, a former Nazi Part member and top civil servant. And the former French minister Maurice Papon would be prosecuted for his role in the deportations.
In the words of Mathieu Kassovitz who, moved by the film, agreed to narrate it: "You can’t say anymore that it never happened.”
France - 2006 - 1 h 26 mn - DV Cam - Colour and B&W
Director
Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle
Writer
Daniel Costelle, Isabelle Clarke
Historical advisor
Serge Klarsfeld
Camera
Isabelle Clarke
Sound
Philippe Godard, Céline Jolivel
Editing
Dominique Brimaud, Sonia Romero
Music
Laurent Petitgirard
Narrator
Mathieu Kassovitz

Production
Clarke Costelle and Co,
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75015 Paris, France
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with the  participation of
France 2, Radiotélévision belge de la communauté française, Télévision Suisse Romande / Radio Télévision Suisse

Sales
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