Was Veit Harlan, the director of the notorious anti-Semitic film, the Nazis' dupe or a willing collaborator? His family still wrestles with the question.
                
                di Kenneth Turan The Los Angeles Times
                
                
                
                
                Families suffering under a curse are a staple of melodramatic fiction, but what if a family labored under a curse in real life? And what if that curse was something created by their long-dead father and grandfather, one of Nazi Germany's most infamous filmmakers? Such is the compelling premise behind the deeply fascinating, unexpectedly potent documentary "Harlan — In the Shadow of 'Jew Suss.' "
The Harlan of the title is Veit Harlan, who along with Leni Riefenstahl was the Third Reich's most celebrated and successful director. [...]
di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4455 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times  11 giugno 2010