Tod und Teufel

Not just a portrait of a family history, but a portrait of civilization at a threshold: the experiences of this one man has one foot in the 19th century, and the other stepping into the 20th. Most appreciated was the nuance with which ideas of fascism and colonialism were treated. These things don't merely happen - they are arrived at, a part of the journey. It's often necessary to look back.

a very dry and decidedly unfilmic documentary on a topic that probably deserves a more pointed perspective.