Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suess (2008) on Netflix
NR20081h 40mDocumentary
A documentary about Veit Harlan, the Nazi-era director of the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß. His children and grandchildren confront the legacy of his work.
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Veit Harlan directed Jud Süß, the anti-Semitic propaganda film that SS members were required to watch, and he became the only artist of the Nazi era charged with war crimes. The documentary draws on archival footage, unearthed film excerpts, home movies and interviews to examine what drove him to make it. His son Thomas Harlan, a filmmaker, his daughters, his nephew Jan Harlan and his niece Christiane Kubrick are among the relatives who describe struggling with that legacy and with the different attitudes it produced in the family. Harlan's 1945 epic Kolberg became the model for the film-within-a-film in Inglourious Basterds.
