Two or Three Things I Know About Him

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Two or Three Things I Know About Him

2005

1h 25m

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Malte Ludin researches the life of his father, convicted and executed as a Nazi war criminal, as a starting point for a painful cinematic investigation of legends about the man, which circulate in his family.

Jack Mathews

New York Daily News

The movie also reveals how the privileged class ignored, condoned or denied the reality of the Holocaust.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 26, 2007

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Jim Ridley

Village Voice

... make for gripping and confrontational viewing.

Jan 25, 2007

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Noel Murray

AV Club

Even though 2 Or 3 Things' central irony is blunt, [director] Ludin's tone remains measured throughout, and never self-serving.

Rated: B

Jan 25, 2007

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Nora Lee Mandel

Film-Forward.com

With this patriarch's crimes echoing through history, his son's clear-eyed evisceration of family. and by extension, societal, mythology is unique.

Rated: 10/10

Dec 10, 2008

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Ken Fox

TV Guide

Malte Ludin's gripping documentary about the father he barely knew is both an extraordinary exercise in family history and an example of what Germans call Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung: 'facing the past.'

Rated: 4/4

Jan 26, 2007

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Shows the enduring capacity of human beings to deny the truth in the face of the facts.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Synopsis

Malte Ludin researches the life of his father, convicted and executed as a Nazi war criminal, as a starting point for a painful cinematic investigation of legends about the man, which circulate in his family.

Director: Malte Ludin
Production Co: Svarc.Film GbR
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: German
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 20, 2017
Runtime: 1h 25m

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