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Language Does Not Lie

11/15/2004

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1hr 19min

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Documentary

,History

STORY

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when Hitler came to power to the war's end, he kept a journal paying attention to the Nazis' use of words. This film takes the end of 1945 as its vantage point, with a narrator looking back as if Klemperer reads from his journal. He examines the use of simple words like "folk," "eternal," and "to live." Interspersed are personal photographs, newsreel footage of Reich leaders and of life in Germany then, and a few other narrative devices. Although he's dispassionate, Klemperer's fear and dread resonate

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Denis Lavant

    Director

  • Stan Neumann

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Les Films d'Ici

    Production Countries

  • France

LANGUAGES

  • German
  • French

Cast

Denis Lavant

Narrator (voice)