Documentary

The Last of the Unjust

Filmplakat mit leicht verschwommenem Bild zweier Männer mit Brille vor einem historischen Torbogen, Titel "Der letzte der Ungerechten" und Hinweise auf den Film von Claude Lanzmann sowie ein Zitat von Die Presse und den Namen Benjamin Murmelstein.

A place: Theresienstadt. As propaganda Adolf Eichmann called it the "model ghetto", which was in reality the last stop before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein. As last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council he was forced to negotiate with Eichmann day after day during the war. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s new film reveals a fundamental aspect of the Holocaust and sheds light on the origins of the "Final Solution".

Data

Category: Documentary
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: 35 mm, 218 Min
Approximate cinema release: 22.11.2013
Release: 22.11.2013
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 3.166
Co-production: Synecdoche (FR), Le Pacte (FR)
International funding: Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, Région Île de France
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Vienna, Czech Republic, Poland, Israel
Shooting time: July - November 2012
Completion: Spring 2013
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien

Credits

Production: DOR FILM Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer Austria: Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Script-concept: Claude Lanzmann
DOP: William Lubtchansky, Caroline Champetier (A.F.C.)
Editor: Chantal Hymans
Sound engineer: Antoine Bonfanti, Manuel Grandpierre, Alexander Koller
Production manager: Thibault Mattei, Iris Wegscheider
German Title: Der Letzte der Ungerechten
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), Canal Plus, France Television, France 3 Cinéma, Cine +